All Jean Paul Quotes
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
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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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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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