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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 girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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