Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann KasparLavaterwas a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth15 November 1741
CountryGermany
beautiful female ugly
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
ears mouths slander
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
men sin minutes
Every man has his devilish minutes.
true-friend good-love simple
The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
procrastination weak procrastinator
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
calmness grandeur
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
wise blood silence
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.
forgiving enemy sublime
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
vanity together rudeness
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
inheritance knows divided
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
trust secret paper
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
gold thinker scarce
Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
intelligent eyebrows lips
Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.
character calmness persons
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.