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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
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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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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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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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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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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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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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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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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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