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Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Quotes (147)

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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Loudness is impotence.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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