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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 knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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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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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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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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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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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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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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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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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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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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