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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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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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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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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