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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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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.
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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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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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