Words matter. These are the best Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Don’t speak evil of someone if you don’t know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
