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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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
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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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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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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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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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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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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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