It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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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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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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