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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

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
J. C. Lavater
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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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Loudness is impotence.
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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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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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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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