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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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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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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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