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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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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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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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Airs of importance are the credentials of 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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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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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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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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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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