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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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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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