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The conscience is more wise than science.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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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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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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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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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.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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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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