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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
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Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Venom
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Malice
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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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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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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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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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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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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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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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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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