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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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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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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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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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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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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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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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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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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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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 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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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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