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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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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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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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Half talent is no talent.
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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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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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