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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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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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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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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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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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