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Famous Jean Paul Quotes
“There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.”
“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”
“Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.”
“The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”
“Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.”
“Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.”
“Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.”
“A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.”
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
“As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.”
“Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.”
“What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.”
“Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.”
“Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.”
“Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.”
“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”
“It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.”
“Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.”