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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
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Painter
Philosopher
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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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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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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