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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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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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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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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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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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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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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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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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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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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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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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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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