Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

— Jean Paul

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

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

— Jean Paul

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

— Jean Paul

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

— Jean Paul

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

— Jean Paul

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

— Jean Paul

The look of a king is itself a deed.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.

— Jean Paul

Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.

— Jean Paul

Brevity is the body and soul of wit.

— Jean Paul