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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
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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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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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Loudness is impotence.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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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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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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A great passion has no partner.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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