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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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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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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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