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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 who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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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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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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