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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 has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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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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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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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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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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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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Half talent is no talent.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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