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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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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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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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A great passion has no partner.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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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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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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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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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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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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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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