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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
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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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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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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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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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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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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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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