“The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.” MayWeaknessWeak Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.” MayDoctorsPatientFancyComplaints Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.” PeopleHeartMayPleasureTasteEmptyIdlenessEmpty Heads Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.” MindMayBookIdeasCoursesAttentionStudySubjectsPainfulDisappointmentPursueFixedMelancholyEndeavorBlankLeafsDisagreeableBook Of LifePain In Life Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.” MayLastsNamesForeverNicknames Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.” MenMayBookHandsReadingForgetPleasureTreeHe ManDutyPureInfiniteRichesLuxuryFriendlyLastingShadeTormentBosomsGrandeurLivelyCompatible Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.” IfsMayWishSocialEnjoyLonelinessOughtSolitudeSilentVariousEmptinessGet AwayHatefulMisanthropic Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“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.” WorldMayHas BeensHappensPaySuicideGrantedExpensesComplimentRetaliationIncivility Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.” MindMayPleasureRichMankindIndustryCapableClaimsPrivilegeIntellectSensesEnjoymentReliefTemporaryExclusiveForgetfulnessLuxuriousTemporary Relief Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
