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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

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
Egotism
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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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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.
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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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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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'We only have two things to worry about...... One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!' Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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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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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, I have enough, is the highest attainment of philosophy.
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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
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Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
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Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
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Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
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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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