All Jean Paul Quotes
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Wisdom
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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.
Jean Paul
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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul
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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
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Jean Paul
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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.
Jean Paul
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul
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