45 Quotations by Johann Kaspar Lavater
- 1. A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
- 2. Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
- 3. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
- 4. Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
- 5. All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.
- 6. Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
- 7. Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
- 8. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
- 9. Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
- 10. Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously t ...
- 11. Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I ...
- 12. Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
- 13. Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
- 14. He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
- 15. He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of o ...
- 16. He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined par ...
- 17. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
- 18. He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or consci ...
- 19. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius ...
- 20. Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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