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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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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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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Half talent is no talent.
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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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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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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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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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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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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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