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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

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
j. c. lavater
Venom
Poisoned
Malice

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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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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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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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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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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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