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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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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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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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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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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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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 quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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