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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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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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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Loudness is impotence.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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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 generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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