63 ordspråk av Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools
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Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed
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He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed
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