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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
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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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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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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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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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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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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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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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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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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