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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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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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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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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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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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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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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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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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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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 knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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