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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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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Half talent is no talent.
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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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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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