Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
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.
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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?
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting
the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,
the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.