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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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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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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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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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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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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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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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