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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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