Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character Copy Share Image
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Fool Copy Share Image
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Ambition Copy Share Image
In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. — 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
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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 true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
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
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Deities Copy Share Image
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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 Copy Share Image
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Hatred Copy Share Image
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Daring Copy Share Image
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Cold Copy Share Image
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Cancer Copy Share Image
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Energy Copy Share Image
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Action Copy Share Image
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Copy Share Image
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Charity Copy Share Image
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater Love Copy Share Image
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
