Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
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.
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.
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.
fit himself suffers
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.