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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
Theologian
Writer
City of Zurich
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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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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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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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.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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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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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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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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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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