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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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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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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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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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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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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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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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