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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
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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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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Half talent is no talent.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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