More from Johann Kaspar Lavater

  1. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
  2. 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?
  3. 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 …
  4. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
  5. Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride…
  6. He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
  7. The public seldom forgive twice.
  8. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

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