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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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