Quotes By Jean Paul

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

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.

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

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

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

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.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Weaklings must lie.

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

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.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

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.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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