Jean Paul

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

-Jean Paul

age
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

-Jean Paul

age
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

-Jean Paul

age
Live your life and forget your age.

-Jean Paul

age
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

-Jean Paul

beauty
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

-Jean Paul

beauty
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

-Jean Paul

birthday
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

-Jean Paul

change
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

-Jean Paul

courage
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

-Jean Paul

death
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

-Jean Paul

death
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

-Jean Paul

forgiveness
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

-Jean Paul

god
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

-Jean Paul

health
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

-Jean Paul

home
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

-Jean Paul

inspirational
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

-Jean Paul

life
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

-Jean Paul

life
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

-Jean Paul

morning
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

-Jean Paul

music
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

-Jean Paul

nature
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

-Jean Paul

power
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

-Jean Paul

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

-Jean Paul

sad
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

-Jean Paul

strength
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

-Jean Paul

time
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

-Jean Paul

time
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

-Jean Paul

wisdom
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

-Jean Paul

wisdom

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