Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
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.
giving trifles
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
lying safety coward
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
character enemy
As your enemies and your friends, so are you
horse laughter character
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
passion murder blasphemy
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
heart lovely tears
She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.