WednesdaySep 09, 2026
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Johann Kaspar Lavater (November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801) was a Swiss poet and physiognomist.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!
Volatility of words is carelessness in actions; words are the wings of actions.
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace All his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies, cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends.
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.
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak but commonly false too; most of the weak are false.
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
The cruelty of the weak is more dreadful than that of the strong.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
It is one of my favorite thoughts, that God manifests himself to mankind in all wise, good, humble, generous, great and magnanimous men.
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.
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before And lost them.
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. Noone who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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