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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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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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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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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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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 sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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Loudness is impotence.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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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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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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