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| Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgement, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| 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. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
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| Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| 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? | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| 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. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
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| Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| 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. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
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| He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| The public seldom forgive twice. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| I am prejudiced in favour 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. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| Stubbornness is the strength of the weak. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
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| He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
