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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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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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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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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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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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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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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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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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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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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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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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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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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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