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Women are proverbially credulous.
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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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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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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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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