Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
decision silence vigor
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.
loss taste
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
friendship enmity dread
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
fearless gold size
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
dresses
Dress is an index of your contents.
curiosity littles may
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
procrastination weak procrastinator
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
smile spiritual character
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
heart humility pride
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
lying incentives action
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
judgment insincerity malice
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
character men voice
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
adventure destiny past
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
desire criminals ignoble
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.