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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

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
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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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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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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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.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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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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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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