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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
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City of Zurich
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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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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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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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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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