Quotes by Paul, Jean

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

Paul, Jean on age and aging
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"Despair is the only genuine atheism."

Paul, Jean on despair
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"Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once."

Paul, Jean on exercise   

"Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones."

Paul, Jean on faults   

"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

Paul, Jean on fear
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"The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future."

Paul, Jean on the future   

"Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness."

Paul, Jean on god
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"No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one."

Paul, Jean on heroes and heroism   

"Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name."

Paul, Jean on idleness   

"Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."

Paul, Jean on joy   

"No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much."

Paul, Jean on laughter
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"The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress."

Paul, Jean on medicine   

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."

Paul, Jean on memory   

"Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm."

Paul, Jean on moderation
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"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

Paul, Jean on morality   

"The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored."

Paul, Jean on parents and parenting   

"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."

Paul, Jean on passion
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"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."

Paul, Jean on planning   

"The look of a king is itself a deed."

Paul, Jean on power   

"No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned."

Paul, Jean on rest   

"Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow."

Paul, Jean on sorrow   

"Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence."

Paul, Jean on change
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"In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears."

Paul, Jean on tears
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"Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s."

Paul, Jean on variety   

"Brevity is the body and soul of wit."

Paul, Jean on wit