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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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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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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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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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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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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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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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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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