Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

• Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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• Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

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• Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

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• Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

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• You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

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• Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

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• The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

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• Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

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• Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

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• Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

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• Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

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• Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man.

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• He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others.

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• Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

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• He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

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• What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

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• Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

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• Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

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• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

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• Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

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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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