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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
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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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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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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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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 submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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