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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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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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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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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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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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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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