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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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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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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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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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The public seldom forgive twice.
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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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