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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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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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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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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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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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.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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