A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Jean Paul

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

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Jean Paul

As 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.
Jean Paul

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

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

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Jean Paul

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Jean Paul

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul


Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Jean Paul

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Jean Paul

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Jean Paul

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Jean Paul

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul

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

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