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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
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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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Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
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Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
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As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
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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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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human?
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error; and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.
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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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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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The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.
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He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.
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Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
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Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
Bio:
Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.
Known for:
Essays on physiognomy (1789)
Aphorisms on man
Physiognomy
Most used words:
man
character
depend
taste
set
genius
truth
three
order
love
produce
manner
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