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Jean Paul Quotes

Jean Paul

German novelist and humorist

Nationality: German
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Type: Comedian
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Birth: 1763-1825
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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.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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.
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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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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.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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The look of a king is itself a deed.
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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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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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Weaklings must lie.
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Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
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