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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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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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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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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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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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