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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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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done 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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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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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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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