Quotes by Richter, Jean Paul

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

Richter, Jean Paul on adversity   

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

Richter, Jean Paul on age and aging   

"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."

Richter, Jean Paul on age and aging   

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

Richter, Jean Paul on age and aging   

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

Richter, Jean Paul on forgiveness
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"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."

Richter, Jean Paul on friends and friendship   

"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."

Richter, Jean Paul on friends and friendship
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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."

Richter, Jean Paul on guidance
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

Richter, Jean Paul on happiness
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"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

Richter, Jean Paul on influence   

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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."

Richter, Jean Paul on love   

"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

Richter, Jean Paul on memory
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"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."

Richter, Jean Paul on miracles   

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."

Richter, Jean Paul on motivation
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"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."

Richter, Jean Paul on art   

"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."

Richter, Jean Paul on sorrow   

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

Richter, Jean Paul on success   

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on birthdays
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"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s."

Richter, Jean Paul on character
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"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."

Richter, Jean Paul on character   

"True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on truth   

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."

Richter, Jean Paul on variety   

"Weaklings must lie."

Richter, Jean Paul on weakness   

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

Richter, Jean Paul on writers and writing   

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."

Richter, Jean Paul on action
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"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

Richter, Jean Paul on courage   

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards."

Richter, Jean Paul on courage   

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."

Richter, Jean Paul on courage   

"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."

Richter, Jean Paul on courtesy