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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
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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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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