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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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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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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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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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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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