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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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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