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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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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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Half talent is no talent.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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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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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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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.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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