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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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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
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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