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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Age: 66 †
Born: 1728
Born: December 8
Died: 1795
Died: October 7
Botanist
Physician
Writer
Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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All our distinctions ire accidental beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.
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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
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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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Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties the sluggard is a living insensible.
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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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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
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Many species of wit are quite mechanical these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
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Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
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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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Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
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Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
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In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
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