Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes about Greatness

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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Greatness, Laughing, Mirth

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Real, Character, Greatness

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.