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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  • The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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  • The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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  • The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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  • The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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  • The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
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  • 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.
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  • Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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  • Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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  • 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.
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  • Weaklings must lie.
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  • 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.
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  • Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
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  • Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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