Jean Paul
Author
1763-03-21
Quotes by Jean Paul
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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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.
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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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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.
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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.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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