Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
'We only have two things to worry about… One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!' Open… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share
