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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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
Johann Caspar Lavater
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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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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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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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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Loudness is impotence.
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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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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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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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