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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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Defeat
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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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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The public seldom forgive twice.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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A great passion has no partner.
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Loudness is impotence.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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