Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

• If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

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• Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

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• The public seldom forgive twice.

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• Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

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• Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

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• The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

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• Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

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• You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

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• He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

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• He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.

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• The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices.

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• Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

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• Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

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• All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.

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• If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

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• Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause.

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• He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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• The worst of faces still is human.

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• Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

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• He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

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Johann Kaspar Lavater (58)

Birth:	15th November, 1741
Death:	2nd January, 1801
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Poet, Theologian, Writer

About

Johann Kaspar Lavater was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian. He served as pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Zürich. He is most well known for his work in the field of physiognomy, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, published between 1775 and 1778. His most important books are Aussichten in die Ewigkeit, Geheimes Tagebuch von einem Beobachter seiner selbst, Pontius Pilatus, and Nathanael.

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