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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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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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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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