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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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