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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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Physicist
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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