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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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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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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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