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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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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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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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Women are proverbially credulous.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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