Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Bad side Copy Share Image
Softness of smile indicates softness of character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Convince Copy Share Image
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Needs Copy Share Image
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Cheat Copy Share Image
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Clear Copy Share Image
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Children Copy Share Image
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater And love Copy Share Image
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Borrowed Copy Share Image
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Ears Copy Share Image
Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion.… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Exertion Copy Share Image
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Left Copy Share Image
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Beauty 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 Extremes Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Approximation Copy Share Image
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Delay Copy Share Image
It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Generous Copy Share Image
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Faces Copy Share Image
Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Indifference Copy Share Image
