He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Be humble Copy Share Image
Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Freedom Copy Share Image
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Dread 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
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
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
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Fourth 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
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
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
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Courage 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 Cease Copy Share Image
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Beggar Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity,… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Duty 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
In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Manners 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
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Charity Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Crowds Copy Share Image
