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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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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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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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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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