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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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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 quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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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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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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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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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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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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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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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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Dress is an index of your contents.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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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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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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