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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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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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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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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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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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Loudness is impotence.
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Half talent is no talent.
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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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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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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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