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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Johann Kaspar Lavater

1741–1801 Switzerland

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Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

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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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The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

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Avoid pretension; Nature never pretends.

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

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The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.

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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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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

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Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or, when he has proved you, with nothing.

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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good.

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All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitious belief.

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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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Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

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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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Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johann Kaspar Lavater (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.