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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
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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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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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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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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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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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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 would the native roses on your cheek.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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