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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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