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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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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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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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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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