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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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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.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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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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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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