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Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Quotes (147)

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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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