8 Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes on Character

Johann Kaspar Lavater quotes on character

4. Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

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

12. Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

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

25. The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

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

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

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