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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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