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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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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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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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Loudness is impotence.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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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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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 has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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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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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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