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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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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