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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.
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
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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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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Words are the wings of actions.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
