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He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.
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Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
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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 knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.
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The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
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He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
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Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
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Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.
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The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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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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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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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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It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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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 loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.
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The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
Bio:
Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.
Known for:
Essays on physiognomy (1789)
Aphorisms on man
Physiognomy
Most used words:
man
character
depend
taste
set
genius
truth
three
order
love
produce
manner
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