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Conscience is wiser than science.
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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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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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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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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