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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.
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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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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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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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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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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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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A great passion has no partner.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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