Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes & Quotations

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

» 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.

» Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

» He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

» You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

» If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

» 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?

» Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

» You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

» Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

» The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

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