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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
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City of Zurich
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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 not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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