There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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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.Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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