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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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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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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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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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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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