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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?

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Virtue

Conscience

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Genius

Prudence

Quick

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Time

Genius

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust

Secrets

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Men

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Intuition

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Art

Man

May

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Friends

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Inheritance

Man