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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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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City of Zurich
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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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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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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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 wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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