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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
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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