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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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
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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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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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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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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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