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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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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 generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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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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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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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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A great passion has no partner.
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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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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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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 scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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Half talent is no talent.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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