Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.”

“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.”

“There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.”

“The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.”

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

“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.”

“The public seldom forgive twice.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”