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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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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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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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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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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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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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Loudness is impotence.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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