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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
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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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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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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