Jean Paul's Quotes

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Weaklings must lie.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.