• Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

    Johann Kaspar Lavater: Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
    "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.