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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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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City of Zurich
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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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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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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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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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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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 procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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