German - Scientist | July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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