Jean Paul Quotes (69 Quotes)


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

    Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

    Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

    Brevity is the body and soul of wit.

    Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.


    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.

    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.

    Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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

    The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

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

    Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

    Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

    What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

    The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

    No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

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

    No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

    Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

    Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

    Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

    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.

    Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

    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.

    No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

    Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

    No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

    The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

    Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

    There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

    Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

    Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

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

    The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

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


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

    Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

    Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

    Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

    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.

    There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

    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.

    The look of a king is itself a deed.

    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.

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

    The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

    Live your life and forget your age.

    Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

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


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