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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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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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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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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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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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