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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
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City of Zurich
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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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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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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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 who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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