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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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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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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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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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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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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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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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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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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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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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Half talent is no talent.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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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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Good-humor is always a success.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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