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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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
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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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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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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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