The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Action Copy Share Image
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Acknowledgement 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… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Amor Copy Share Image
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Genius Copy Share Image
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Everything Copy Share Image
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Request Copy Share Image
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Active 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 Begets Copy Share Image
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Consent Copy Share Image
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Benefits Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Envy Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Deities Copy Share Image
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Action 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
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Action Copy Share Image
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Anger Copy Share Image
The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth. — Johann Kaspar Lavater He man Copy Share Image
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Advice Copy Share Image
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Folly Copy Share Image
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Blasphemy Copy Share Image
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Action Copy Share Image
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Communication Copy Share Image
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Book 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 Betray Copy Share Image
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Comes 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
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
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
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
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Immensity 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
The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Aim Copy Share Image
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Hypocrisy 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 Agree 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 Believe 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 Form 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
