Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Mere Copy Share Image
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. — Jean Paul Health Copy Share Image
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. — Jean Paul Attracts Copy Share Image
“A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another.” — Jean Paul Character Copy Share Image
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. — Jean Paul Age Copy Share Image
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. — Jean Paul Darkness Copy Share Image
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as… — Jean Paul Approach Copy Share Image
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of… — Jean Paul Air Copy Share Image
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. — Jean Paul Friend Copy Share Image
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. — Jean Paul Beautiful Copy Share Image
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold… — Jean Paul Attracts Copy Share Image
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of… — Jean Paul Atmosphere Copy Share Image
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary… — Jean Paul Burden Copy Share Image
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they… — Jean Paul Beauty Copy Share Image
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open… — Jean Paul Advice Copy Share Image
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Forgiveness brings peace to your heart and wings… — Jean Paul Beautiful Copy Share Image
“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 Atheism Copy Share Image
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from… — Jean Paul Age Copy Share Image
He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and… — Jean Paul Children Copy Share Image
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body… — Jean Paul Angel Copy Share Image
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like… — Jean Paul Army Copy Share Image
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even… — Jean Paul Characteristics Copy Share Image
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most… — Jean Paul Beautiful Copy Share Image
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. — Jean Paul Memory Copy Share Image
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life. — Jean Paul Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
