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Famous Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
“Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.”
“Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.”
“Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.”
“Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.”
“Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.”
“Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.”
“You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.”
“She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.”
“The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...”
“The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.”
“The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.”
“A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.”
“Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.”
“Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.”
“The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.”