Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
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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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As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
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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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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.
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The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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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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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
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Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.
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Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.
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