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Johann Kaspar Lavater

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


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#alphabet #character #form #looks #may

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#sentinel #virtue

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#ask #certain #evil #i #know

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


#heart #pedant #seen #warm #you

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


— Johann Kaspar Lavater


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About Johann Kaspar Lavater






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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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