31 quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Various
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?
4.9 · 56 votes · 185 reads
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Virtues
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
4.6 · 30 votes · 144 reads
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Art and Culture
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
3.4 · 46 votes · 70 reads
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Feelings
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
3.5 · 33 votes · 97 reads
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Government and Politics
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
4.3 · 34 votes · 161 reads
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Feelings
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
3.1 · 24 votes · 151 reads
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Nature
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
3.4 · 44 votes · 13 reads
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Thought and Reason
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
3.1 · 26 votes · 114 reads
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Various
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.
4.8 · 47 votes · 125 reads
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Various
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
3.7 · 58 votes · 124 reads
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Virtues
Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.
3.6 · 40 votes · 15 reads
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Society
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
3.1 · 29 votes · 37 reads
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Various
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
3.5 · 63 votes · 160 reads
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Time
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
4.7 · 14 votes · 45 reads
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Time
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
4.2 · 23 votes · 78 reads
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Feelings
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
3.5 · 64 votes · 36 reads
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Various
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
4.4 · 50 votes · 15 reads
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Defects
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
4.6 · 49 votes · 45 reads
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Society
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
3.3 · 60 votes · 5 reads
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Society
The public seldom forgive twice.
3.0 · 19 votes · 159 reads
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Various
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
4.5 · 32 votes · 181 reads
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Various
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
3.5 · 17 votes · 11 reads
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Virtues
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
4.8 · 22 votes · 137 reads
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Time
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
3.0 · 51 votes · 19 reads
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Virtues
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
3.0 · 54 votes · 30 reads
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Virtues
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
3.3 · 22 votes · 101 reads
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