“The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.” PassionMurderTerrificBlasphemyStormyVillainy Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.” ChildrenDesirePassionThousandOccasionsSparksDischargeCrackers Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.” CharacterPassionPleasureFourPrideRageMelancholySuspicionAvariceIndolenceVolatilitySanguine Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.” SufferingPassionFitAngerCaughtSubmitMicroscopes Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.” ShouldPassionHonestPassionateHypocriteHasty Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
