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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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