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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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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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Dress is an index of your contents.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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