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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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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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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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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.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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