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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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
Johann Caspar Lavater
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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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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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