Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.”
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“Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.”
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“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.”
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“Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.”
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“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
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“Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?”
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“What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.”
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“I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.”
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“You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.”
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“He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.”
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“Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.”
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“A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.”
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“Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.”
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“He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.”
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“All finery is a sign of littleness.”
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“Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.”
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“The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.”
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“The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.”
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“Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.”
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“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.”
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“The conscience is more wise than science.”
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“Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.”
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“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”
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“Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.”
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“A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.”
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“The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.”
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“It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.”
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