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Best 107 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater – Page 3 of 4

“The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.”

“The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.”

“The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.”

“The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human?”

“The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he.”

“The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.”

“The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.”

“The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.”

“The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.”

“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”

“The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.”

“The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.”

“The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.”

“The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint — the affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.”

“The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.”

“The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.”

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“The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.”

“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.”

“The public seldom forgive twice.”

“The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.”

“The worst of faces still is human.”

“There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.”

“Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.”

“Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.”

“To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.”

“Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.”

“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”

“Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.”

“Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.”

“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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