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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
God protects those he loves from worthless reading.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Conscience is wiser than science.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Handsome and brilliantly rich; their fatal flaw is murder.
— Abigail Gibbs
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Where pride begins, love ceases.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every man has his devilish minutes.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
As your enemies and your friends, so are you
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The conscience is more wise than science.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Women are proverbially credulous.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Dress is an index of your contents.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Words are the wings of actions.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Defeat serves to enlighten us.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
A great passion has no partner.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
