Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
j. c. lavater
Passionate
Cool
Honest
Passion
Dissembling
Hasty
Hypocrite
Beware
Generally
More quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every man has his devilish minutes.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
All finery is a sign of littleness.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
