“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.”

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

No. 609
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

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