“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“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
Jean Paul“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
Jean Paul“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
Jean Paul“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”
Jean Paul“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”
Jean Paul“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
Jean Paul“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