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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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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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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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