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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
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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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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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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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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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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