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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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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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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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