Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

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. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

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