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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 worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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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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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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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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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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