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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.
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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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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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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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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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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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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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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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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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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