Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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.
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Also known as: Jean Paul Richter
45 quotes
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds—in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds.
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so.
No one will be more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys but that our hopes cease.
Criticism often takes from the tree
Caterpillars and blossoms together.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Paul (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.