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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
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City of Zurich
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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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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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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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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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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Loudness is impotence.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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