Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause Johann Kaspar Lavater More Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater More Quotes From Johann Kaspar Lavater The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. Johann Kaspar Lavater sanctitypietyfaces He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart. Johann Kaspar Lavater innocentcancerheart Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings. Johann Kaspar Lavater readingbelievebook The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. Johann Kaspar Lavater smoothselfway There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. Johann Kaspar Lavater pridehumilityheart Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable. Johann Kaspar Lavater homedoorscharacter Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. Johann Kaspar Lavater buttonsdressescharacter Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he. Johann Kaspar Lavater griefcharactermen True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw. Johann Kaspar Lavater eyebearslove An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan∣tum of congruities and incongruities. Johann Kaspar Lavater honestyselfmen 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 mirthgreatnesslaughing Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. Johann Kaspar Lavater greatnessrealcharacter Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it. Johann Kaspar Lavater extremesfashionlong Dress is an index of your contents. Johann Kaspar Lavater dresses As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents. Johann Kaspar Lavater houseadviceenemy Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little. Johann Kaspar Lavater curiositymaylittles Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him. Johann Kaspar Lavater threecuriosityrunning He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want. Johann Kaspar Lavater requestroundswant 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. Johann Kaspar Lavater prudentheromistake The immoderate cannot laugh moderately. Johann Kaspar Lavater laughterlaughing
