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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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