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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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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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