Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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