Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
character passion pride
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.
heart simplicity suffering
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.
men no-friends depends
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
friendship enmity dread
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
men expression want
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
real fate men
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
light giving wish
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.
honesty delay today
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
men ideas desire
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
trust
Women are proverbially credulous.
world matter immensity
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.
looks shelter common
Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.
forgiveness distance forgiving
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.