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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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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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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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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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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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 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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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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