The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Truth Wisdom

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

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German

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

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Writer

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Switzerland Europe

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Lavater, Johann Kaspar. Aphorisms of Man, translated by Henry Fuseli. London: J. Johnson, 1788, no. 93.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.