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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
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Thinkers
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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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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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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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Loudness is impotence.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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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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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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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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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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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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