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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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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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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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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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