As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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 Copy Share Image
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the… — 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
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — 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 it? — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Si quieres ser sabio, aprende a interrogar razonablemente, a escuchar con atención, a responder serenamente y a callar cuando no tengas nada que decir.” — 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
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
