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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
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Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
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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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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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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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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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