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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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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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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Loudness is impotence.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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