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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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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City of Zurich
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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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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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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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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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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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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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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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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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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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