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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.
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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København
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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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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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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