Jean Paul Quotes
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?
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He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
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Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.
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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
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The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
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See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.
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Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
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A sky full of silent suns.
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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
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It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
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The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
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