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A great passion has no partner.
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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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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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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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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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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