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Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The public seldom forgive twice.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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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


#country #friends #himself #i #man

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


#else #genius #given #more #none

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#makes #moment #prudence #quick #use

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


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#better #friends #good #imagine #than

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


#bad #decidedly #depend #friends #good

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#devil #dull #jealous #mad #possessed

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


#art #bear #blowing #fiend #him






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Corruption fighter
At barely twenty-one years of age Lavater greatly distinguiJohann Kaspar Lavaterd himself by denouncing in conjunction with his friend Henry Fuseli the painter an iniquitous magistrate who was compelled to make restitution of his ill-gotten gains. The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his physiognomical studies were the writings of the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta and the observations made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (translated into German in 1748 and praised by Lavater). Antagonist of Rationalism
Lavater had a mystic's indifference to historical Christianity and although regarded as a champion of orthodoxy was actually an antagonist of rationalism.

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