Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
reading protect worthless
God protects those he loves from worthless reading.
heart humility pride
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
fashion sacrifice clothes
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
time next moral
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
ignorance men class
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
enlightening defeat
Defeat serves to enlighten us.
heart deception too-short
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
sacrifice pleasure duty
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
science wiser conscience
Conscience is wiser than science.
generosity heaven may
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
order taste action
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
two hypocrisy individuality
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
book faces deceiving
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
mind too-much arguing
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.