A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Country Copy Share Image
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Approach Copy Share Image
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Heart Copy Share Image
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Copy Share Image
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Criminals Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Child Copy Share Image
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life — Johann Kaspar Lavater Enemies Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Obstinacy Copy Share Image
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Fate Copy Share Image
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Communication Copy Share Image
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Comedy Copy Share Image
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Enemy Copy Share Image
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Class Copy Share Image
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Discovery Copy Share Image
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Decision Copy Share Image
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Comedy Copy Share Image
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 Calm Copy Share Image
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Beautiful Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots — Johann Kaspar Lavater Reform Copy Share Image
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Contentment Copy Share Image
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Art Copy Share Image
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Beauty Copy Share Image
