Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
More Quotes from Jean Paul:
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.Jean Paul
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
Jean Paul
Weaklings must lie.
Jean Paul
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
Jean Paul
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul
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