Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
self way smooth
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.
grief character joy
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
smart giving biting
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
forgiveness distance forgiving
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.
forgiveness embrace divine
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
genius proportion vulgar
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
silence style may
A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
giving trifles
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
good-humor
Good-humor is always a success.
religious humble humility
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
imitation wit poorest
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
men interest
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
men religion physicians
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
finds mistrust
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.