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German - Author March 21, 1763 - November 14, 1825

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul

Life Music Night

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. - Jean Paul

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. Jean Paul

Birthday Time Feathers

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. Jean Paul

Death Darkness Evening

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

Age Matter Does

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. Jean Paul

Good Evil Result

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Jean Paul

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul

Life Wisdom Sand

Live your life and forget your age. Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. - Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul

Sad Age Old Age

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. - Jean Paul

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. Jean Paul

Your Mouth Prove

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. - Jean Paul

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul

Inspirational Joy Evening

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

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

Good Wait Action

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

Character Man Own

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

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

Health Sleep Must

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

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

Great Act Thought

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

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

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul

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. Jean Paul

Life Morning Look

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

Heart Wings Hair

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. - Jean Paul

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. Jean Paul

Wisdom Change Situation

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

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

Courage Time Person

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

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

God Soul Planted

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

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

Forgiveness Beautiful Humanity

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul

Life Your Words

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

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

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Jean Paul

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

Death Youth Sleep

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. Jean Paul

Life Strength Charm

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul

Paradise Cannot Only

Sorrows 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. - Jean Paul

Sorrows 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. Jean Paul

Nature Great Storm

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. - Jean Paul

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul

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

Courage Seeing Danger

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul

Yourself Never Until

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. Jean Paul

Home World Privacy

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. - Jean Paul

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. Jean Paul

Earth Heaven Miracle

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. Jean Paul

Heaven Fall Flowers

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. - Jean Paul

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. Jean Paul

Sympathy Joy Sorrow

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

Beauty Power Men

Jean Paul Life Quotes

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

Age Winter Old Age

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

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

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. Jean Paul

Poverty Loved More

Two 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. Jean Paul

Life Men Memory

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

Praise People Simpler

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. Jean Paul

Men Woman First

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. Jean Paul

Love Character Reflection

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

Life Man Weather

Weaklings must lie. Jean Paul

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. Jean Paul

Beauty Great Always

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

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

Myself Man More

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Jean Paul

Pleasure More Something

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