Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Paul
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German author Jean Paul.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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.
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.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
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.
Weaklings must lie.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Live your life and forget your age.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
Paradise is always where love dwells.
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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