Beauty Quote by 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 it has…

— Jean Paul

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

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

— Jean Paul

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

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

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

— Jean Paul

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