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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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One has to do something new in order to see something new.

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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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