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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
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City of Zurich
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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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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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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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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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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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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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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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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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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