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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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A great passion has no partner.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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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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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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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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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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