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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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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
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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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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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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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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