Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann quotes
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“There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect”
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“Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering”
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“Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.”
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“Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.”
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“The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.”
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“By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.”
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“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.”
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“A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.”
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“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
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“Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.”
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“Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.”
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“Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.”
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“Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.”
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“When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.”
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“Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.”
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“The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.”
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