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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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
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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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