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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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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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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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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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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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