He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
As the impudence of flattery, so the impudence of egotism.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
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 CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritence with him.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER, as quoted in Wise Words and Quotes
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