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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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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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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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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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Dress is an index of your contents.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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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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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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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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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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