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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet and philosopher, born on November 15, 1741, in Zurich, Switzerland, and died on January 2, 1801. He is known for his unique poetic style and profound insights into human nature. more

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“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.”

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