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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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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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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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