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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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