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Love Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
- Where pride begins, love ceases.
- 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…
- Defeat serves to enlighten us.
- Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
- To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
- He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
- When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you…
- Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
- He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
- The worst of faces still is human.
- Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
- Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
- The public seldom forgive twice.
- He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
- As your enemies and your friends, so are you
- The miser robs himself.
- The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
- Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
- He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
- He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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