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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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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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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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