Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.
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 may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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