Jean Paul Quotes
1763–1825 Germany
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German novelist and short-story writer. He is usually referred to by his pen-name, Jean Paul, but sometimes simply as Richter.
- Germany
- Novelists
- Short story writers
Also known as: Jean Paul Richter
45 quotes
The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.
For when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!
Every man has a rainy corner of his life out of which foul weather proceeds and follows after him.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.
A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with.
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
It sank deep into his heart, like the melody of a song sounding from out of childhood's days.
One learns taciturnity best among people who have none, and loquacity among the taciturn.
He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power.
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Paul (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.