WIST Quotations

Lavater, Johann Kaspar -- Aphorisms on Man, #157 (1788)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, theologian, physiognomist.
Aphorisms on Man, #157 (1788)

Lavater, Johann Kaspar -- Aphorisms on Man, #340 (1788)

Dave — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:29:05 +0000

As you receive the stranger, so you receive your God.

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, theologian, physiognomist.
Aphorisms on Man, #340 (1788)

See Numbers 13:2.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar -- Aphorisms on Man, 2nd ed. (1789)

Dave — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:05:18 +0000

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice, and never ceases nibbling.

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, theologian, physiognomist.
Aphorisms on Man, 2nd ed. (1789)