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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
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Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Loudness is impotence.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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