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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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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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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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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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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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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 great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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