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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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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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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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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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