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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
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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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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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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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Loudness is impotence.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Half talent is no talent.
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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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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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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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