Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. — Jean Paul Conquering Copy Share Image
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it. — Jean Paul Deserve Copy Share Image
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. — Jean Paul Character Copy Share Image
For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name… — Jean Paul Astronomy 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… — Jean Paul Brutal Copy Share Image
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. — Jean Paul Every man Copy Share Image
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of… — Jean Paul Beats Copy Share Image
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. — Jean Paul Darkness Copy Share Image
See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep… — Jean Paul Care Copy Share Image
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal… — Jean Paul Climbing Copy Share Image
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as… — Jean Paul Children Copy Share Image
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that… — Jean Paul Appreciated Copy Share Image
Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as… — Jean Paul Bird Copy Share Image
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which… — Jean Paul Air Copy Share Image
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover… — Jean Paul Character 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
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
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
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
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever. — Jean Paul Forever Copy Share Image
