Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes - Page 10

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• If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Vehement, Cold

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Want, Littles, Pursuit

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• He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Friendship, Cheating Men, Cheat

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• He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Reform, Done, Crowds

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• 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

  Vigor, Genius, Talent

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Ears, Study

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• The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

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  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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• The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Anger, Wrath, Mind

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Children, Passion, Desire

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• The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Self, Way, Smooth

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• As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Men, Manners

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• He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Passion, Hypocrite, Honest

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