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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
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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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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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Loudness is impotence.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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