Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Falsehood Copy Share Image
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Adventure Copy Share Image
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Men Copy Share Image
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Clothes Copy Share Image
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Absence Copy Share Image
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Art Copy Share Image
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Action Copy Share Image
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Immensity Copy Share Image
Softness of smile indicates softness of character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Conceit Copy Share Image
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Beauty Copy Share Image
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs — Johann Kaspar Lavater Death Copy Share Image
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Loss Copy Share Image
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he... — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Business Copy Share Image
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Curiosity Copy Share Image
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Enemy Copy Share Image
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
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 Action Copy Share Image
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Gambling Copy Share Image
