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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
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City of Zurich
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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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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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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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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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 wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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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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