37 Quotes by Jean Paul
- 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.
- You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
- Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
- Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
- 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.
- The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
- There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
- Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
- Weaklings must lie.
- What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
- 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.
- Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
- Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
- The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
- A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
- 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.
- Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
- Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
- Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
- Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
- Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
- For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
- God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
- Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
- Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
- I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
- It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
- Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
- Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine
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