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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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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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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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