Frases de Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar Lavater , além de pastor, foi filósofo, poeta, teólogo e um entusiasta do magnetismo animal na Suíça. É considerado o fundador da fisiognomonia, a arte de conhecer a personalidade das pessoas através dos traços fisionômicos. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Novembro 1741 – 2. Janeiro 1801
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Johann Kaspar Lavater Frases famosas

“Como são poucas as nossas necessidades reais, e como são imensas as aspirações.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater, citado em "Frases Geniais‎" - Página 59, PAULO BUCHSBAUM, JAGUAR - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335440 páginas
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Johann Kaspar Lavater: Frases em inglês

“Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed:”

As quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234
Contexto: Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

“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?”

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

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

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

“The public seldom forgive twice.”

No. 595
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 4

“Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246

“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”

No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)