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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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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