Quotes by Jean Paul
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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