Quotes from lavater johann kaspar ii

Can he love truth who can take a knave to his bosom?

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps, are all a clear because to a clear why.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies.

What affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.