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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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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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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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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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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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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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