He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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.
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.
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
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.
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.
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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.
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