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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
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City of Zurich
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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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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