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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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
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City of Zurich
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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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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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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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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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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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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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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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