Quote: Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Despair is the only genuine atheism. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. [Jean Paul]
Quote: No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. [Jean Paul]
Quote: No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The look of a king is itself a deed. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored. [Jean Paul]
Quote: No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. [Jean Paul]
Quote: In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow. [Jean Paul]
Quote: No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. [Jean Paul]
Quote: The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s. [Jean Paul]
Quote: Brevity is the body and soul of wit. [Jean Paul]
Quote: What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. [Jean Paul]