The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Adventure Copy Share Image
Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! — Johann Kaspar Lavater Disguise Copy Share Image
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Adventure Copy Share Image
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Astronomy 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
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 Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Acquaintance 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
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
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want. — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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 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 Copy Share Image
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorism 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 Copy Share Image
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Character 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 Copy Share Image
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs — Johann Kaspar Lavater Death Copy Share Image
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Beauty Copy Share Image
Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Loss Copy Share Image
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he... — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Falsehood Copy Share Image
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Adventure Copy Share Image
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Men Copy Share Image
