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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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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