Quotes by Jean Paul
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Live your life and forget your age.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Weaklings must lie.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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