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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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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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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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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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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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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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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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