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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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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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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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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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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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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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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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 makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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