"A moral lesson is better expressed in short……" — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
"A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse."
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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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16 Quotes by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred…
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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge…
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When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
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Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it…
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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
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Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card…
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By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
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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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