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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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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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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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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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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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Loudness is impotence.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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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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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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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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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 procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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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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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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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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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Half talent is no talent.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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