He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. Johann Kaspar Lavater More Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater More Quotes From Johann Kaspar Lavater Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good. Johann Kaspar Lavater eye Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. Johann Kaspar Lavater rudeness vanity together Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. Johann Kaspar Lavater levity malice produce Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses. Johann Kaspar Lavater limbs essence firsts Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties. Johann Kaspar Lavater shelter helping looks Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. Johann Kaspar Lavater superstitions mind inspire Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. Johann Kaspar Lavater arbitrary habit masters Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. Johann Kaspar Lavater love friendship order The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. Johann Kaspar Lavater good-love true-friend simple Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. Johann Kaspar Lavater severity ends judging He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration. Johann Kaspar Lavater errors wise men The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity. Johann Kaspar Lavater insincerity malice judgment The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste. Johann Kaspar Lavater taste loss As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified. Johann Kaspar Lavater hatred-and-love hatred men The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. Johann Kaspar Lavater vigorous enjoyment enjoy Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. Johann Kaspar Lavater sacred temptation lying Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. Johann Kaspar Lavater grief joy character The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character. Johann Kaspar Lavater horse laughter character The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night. Johann Kaspar Lavater stars night The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. Johann Kaspar Lavater ignoble criminals desire
