Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
contradiction trade
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
eye thinking world
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
wise conscience
The conscience is more wise than science.
likes speak conceit
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
feels
The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he.
sacrifice fool enjoy
Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.
passion partners great-passion
A great passion has no partner.
laughter laughing
The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
love faces worst
The worst of faces still is human.
vigor genius talent
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.
friendship three lost
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
weak stubbornness
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
men ears study
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.
party men society
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.