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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
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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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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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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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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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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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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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Loudness is impotence.
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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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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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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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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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