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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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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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