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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
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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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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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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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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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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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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