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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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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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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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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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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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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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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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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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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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