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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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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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Good-humor is always a success.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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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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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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