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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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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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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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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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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 manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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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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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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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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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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