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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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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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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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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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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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Loudness is impotence.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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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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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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