Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
love faces worst
The worst of faces still is human.
tongue faces eloquent
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
book faces deceiving
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
character enemy
As your enemies and your friends, so are you
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
mind useless littles
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
trust littles indifference
Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
lying safety coward
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
party men society
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
men ears study
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.
weak stubbornness
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
vigor genius talent
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.
character giving giver
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
friendship three lost
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.