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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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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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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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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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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