Jean Paul [1763-1825] German Rank: 102 Author
Age, Courage, Death, Life, Sad, Time, Wisdom, Birthday, Change, Forgiveness, God, Good, Great, Health, Inspirational, Morning, Music, Nature, Strength, Sympathy
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. | Birthday, Time | 101The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. | Wisdom | 102God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. | God | 103Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. | Music | 104Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. | Life, Time | 105There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. | | 106What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. | Age, Sad | 107Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. | Courage | 108Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. | | 109Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. | Inspirational | 110For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. | Health | 111You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. | | 112Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. | | 113A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. | | 114Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. | Change, Wisdom | 115Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. | Forgiveness | 116The 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. | | 117Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. | | 118The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. | | 119Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. | Sad | 120Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? | | 121The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. | Death | 122Sorrows 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. | Nature | 123A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. | Courage | 124Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. | Age | 125Like 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. | Life, Morning | 126Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. | Death | 201We 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. | | 202Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. | | 203There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. | Sympathy | 204Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. | | 205Live your life and forget your age. | | 206The 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. | | 207There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. | | 208Age does not matter if the matter does not age. | | 209Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. | Strength | 210Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. | | 211Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. | | 212As 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. | | 213Whenever, 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. | | 214Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. | Good | 215Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. | | 216Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. | | 217It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. | | 218Weaklings must lie. | | 219Be great in act, as you have been in thought. | Great | 220Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. | | 221Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. | | 222I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more. | | 223Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. | | 224 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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