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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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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Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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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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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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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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