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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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