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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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