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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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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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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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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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