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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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French Moralist
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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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 most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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