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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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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 is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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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 more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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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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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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