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Good-humor is always a success.
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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Humor
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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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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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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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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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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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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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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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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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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