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Action(s)
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Agreement
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
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Character
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
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Conscience
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
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Deception/Lying
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Desires
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He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
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Envy / Jealousy
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
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Eyes
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Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
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Fanaticism
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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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Friends
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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Genius
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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God
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Gossip
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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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Heroes/Heroism
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
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Identity
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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
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Independence
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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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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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Inheritance
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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Intuition
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Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.
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Laughter
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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Books by and about Johann Kaspar Lavater