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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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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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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