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Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.”

Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

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“I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.”

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“The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.”

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“How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.”

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“No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.”

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“Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.”

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“What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.”

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“Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.”

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“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.”

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