Top 66 Quotes & Sayings by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann - Page 2

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

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.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.