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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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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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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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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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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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