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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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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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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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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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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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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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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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