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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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Half talent is no talent.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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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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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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