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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

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
j. c. lavater
Humility
Pride
Friends
Heart
Love
Impudence
Hardness
Inseparable
Falsehood

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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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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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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Half talent is no talent.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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