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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
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City of Zurich
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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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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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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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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