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Swiss writer, theologian and poet, wrote in German.
He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The public seldom forgive twice.
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 who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The worst of faces still is human.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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