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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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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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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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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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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
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Good-humor is always a success.
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