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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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
Poet
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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