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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent pat...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Too much gravity argues a shallow mind
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The worst of faces still is human
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JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life
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JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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