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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
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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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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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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