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Jean Paul Quotes (1763-1825)
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About Jean Paul
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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“The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”
“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”
“Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.”
“The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.”
“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”
“Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.”
“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 cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?”
“The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.”
“The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.”
“When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.”
“When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter.”
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Jean Paul on Life 5 quotes
“The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”
Jean Paul on Love 3 quotes
“Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewust kühner.
A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.”
Jean Paul on Sky
“A sky full of silent suns.”
Jean Paul on Enjoyment
“Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.”
Jean Paul on Work
“The virtues, like the body,become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”
Jean Paul on Twilight
“Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.”
Jean Paul on Future
Jean Paul on Past
Jean Paul on Marxism
“Marxism, as the formal framework of all contemporary philosophical thought, cannot be superseded.”
Jean Paul on Heroes
“The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.”
Jean Paul on Worldliness
“Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.”
What Jean Paul Said About Others
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Jean Paul on Women
“A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with.”
About Jean Paul
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.