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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

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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Loudness is impotence.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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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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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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