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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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