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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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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 immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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