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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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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Painter
Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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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 public seldom forgive twice.
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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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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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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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Loudness is impotence.
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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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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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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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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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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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