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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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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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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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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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A great passion has no partner.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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