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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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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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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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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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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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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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