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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
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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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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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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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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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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