Quotes by Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who find >>

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? >>

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, o >>

Quotations about Heroes and Heroism

Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth. >>

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't li >>

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, o >>

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar