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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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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City of Zurich
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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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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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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 despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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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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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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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 loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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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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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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