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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

~Johann Kaspar Lavater

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Theologian

Born: November 15th, 1741

Died: January 2nd, 1801

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