Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over...

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over...

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise;...

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise;...

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

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

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for...

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for...

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a...

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a...

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that...

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that...

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and...

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and...

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from...

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from...

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has...

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has...

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

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

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

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the...

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the...

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering...

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in...