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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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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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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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