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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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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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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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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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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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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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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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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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