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Half talent is no talent.
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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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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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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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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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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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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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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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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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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