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“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

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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…

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Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

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It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners…

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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not…

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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches…

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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds…

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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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…

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I'm convinced I will be cleared of all these charges that were unfairly leveled against me.

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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

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