Johann Kaspar Lavater Quote

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.


Aphorisms on Man (ed. 1789)


He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary...

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary...

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary...

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary...