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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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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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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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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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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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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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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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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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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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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