Jean Paul
21 quotations
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
The look of a king is itself a deed.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.