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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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Loudness is impotence.
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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