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Loudness is impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Loudness
Impotence
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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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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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