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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
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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 knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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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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A great passion has no partner.
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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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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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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