Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Animal 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
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
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 Creatures Copy Share Image
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Former Copy Share Image
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Genius 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
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Expression Copy Share Image
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Evil Copy Share Image
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Enjoy 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
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Hated Copy Share Image
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Faults Copy Share Image
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Adapting Copy Share Image
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences,… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Consequence Copy Share Image
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Believe 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 Duty Copy Share Image
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Devil Copy Share Image
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Calmness Copy Share Image
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Cease Copy Share Image
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Books Copy Share Image
