Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
action actions finds good incapable pleasure truly
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
time stupid hero
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
despise made impressed
Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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.
judgment insincerity malice
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
contradiction trade
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
vanity together rudeness
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
heartless sneer
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
trust
Women are proverbially credulous.
arbitrary habit masters
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
hypocrite passion honest
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
ears mouths slander
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.