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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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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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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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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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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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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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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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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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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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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 countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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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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