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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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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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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, 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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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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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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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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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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