Jean Paul

The girls call me like 911

— Jean Paul

Weaklings must lie.

— Jean Paul

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

— Jean Paul

A sky full of silent suns.

— Jean Paul

The look of a king is itself a deed.

— Jean Paul

A scholar knows no boredom.

— Jean Paul

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

— Jean Paul

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

— Jean Paul

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

— Jean Paul

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

— Jean Paul

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

— Jean Paul

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

— Jean Paul

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of…

— Jean Paul

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of…

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

— Jean Paul

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

— Jean Paul

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as…

— Jean Paul

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that…

— Jean Paul

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

— Jean Paul

“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black…

— Jean Paul

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Forgiveness brings peace to your heart and wings…

— Jean Paul

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open…

— Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they…

— Jean Paul

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary…

— Jean Paul

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove…

— Jean Paul

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of…

— Jean Paul

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that…

— Jean Paul

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body…

— Jean Paul

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like…

— Jean Paul

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…

— Jean Paul

It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even…

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

— Jean Paul

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

— Jean Paul

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul