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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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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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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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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