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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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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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