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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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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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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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