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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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
Johann Caspar Lavater
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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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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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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