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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
Success
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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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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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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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 manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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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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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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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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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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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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