Quotes by Jean Paul

Jean Paul

Jean Paul

German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter)

Lived from: 1763 - 1825

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 21 march 1763 Died: 14 november 1825

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  • 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.
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  • Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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  • Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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  • Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
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  • No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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  • No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
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  • No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
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  • No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
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  • Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
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  • Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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  • Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
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  • Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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  • Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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  • Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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  • Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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  • The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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  • 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.
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  • The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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  • The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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  • The look of a king is itself a deed.
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