"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original."
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Source: Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal] by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.
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