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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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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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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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul
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