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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
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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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 worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Loudness is impotence.
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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