Johann Kaspar Lavater: Man

Johann Kaspar Lavater was Swiss poet. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

As quoted in What Billingsgate Thought: A Country Gentleman's Views on Snobbery (1919) by William Alexander Newman Dorland

Evil

“Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

No. 398
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

God , Books , Star

“The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290

“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.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater

No. 84
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

Art