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 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 Copy Share Image
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. — Jean Paul 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 to some… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image