Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
enemy forgiven life sublime tasted
He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life
forgiveness embrace divine
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
forgiveness distance forgiving
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.
books god man none quest stars turn
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
divided man until
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
crowd himself public reforming reforms toward
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots
action actions finds good incapable others pleasure truly
He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others
bear generally great merely virtues
The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices.
acute alone observe observed
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed
comprehend elaborate great hand men minds ordinary pressure
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence
doe calm belief
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
friendship cheating-men cheat
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
fit himself suffers
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
men
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.