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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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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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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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