Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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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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The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.