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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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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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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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The public seldom forgive twice.
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