Jean Paul Quotes

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

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

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Repetition is the mother of education.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.