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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The public seldom forgive twice.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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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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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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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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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
