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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Thinkers
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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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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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 great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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