Jean Paul Quotes

Jean Paul

German Author

Born: Mar 21, 1763

Died: Nov 14, 1825

Age Danger Gives Great Life Men

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul

Life Our See More Through Clearer Hourglass Escaped Sand Should

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. Jean Paul

God Soul Sigh Depths Planted

Live your life and forget your age. Jean Paul

Life Age Live Forget Your

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul

Black Our Distance Scarcely Over Heads Like Look Sorrows Gray

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul

Beautiful Forgiveness Humanity Else Never Another Praying Forgiving

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul

Sad Age Old Old Age Our Hopes Joys Makes Cease

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Jean Paul

Pleasure Something More Variety Gives Mere Than Uniformity

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. Jean Paul

Life Strength Charm Give Only Gives Moderation Actions

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul

Men Like Go Bullets Farthest

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. Jean Paul

Good Own Our Sons Us Deeds Actions Ennoble

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. Jean Paul

Joy Sympathy Know Sorrow None Which

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. Jean Paul

People Easier Simpler Praise Than Flatter Them

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. Jean Paul

Poverty More Only Bearing Heavier Loved Loved Ones Which Assist Load

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul

You Yourself Write Never Until Read Subject Full

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. Jean Paul

Great Fruit Fools Beauty Party Mood Study Like Looked Around Always Been Whenever Stall Flies Round Her Gather

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Jean Paul

Sunflower Every Other Sun Follows He Also Attracts Friend

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. Jean Paul

Character Man Own Never He Clearly His

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul

Inspirational Joy Down Like Dew Gently Does Us Descend Evening

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