More from Johann Kaspar Lavater

  1. Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
  2. Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride…
  3. Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
  4. If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense …
  5. Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
  6. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
  7. Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
  8. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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