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Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Quotes (147)

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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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Half talent is no talent.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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