71 Quotations by Jean Paul Richter
- 1. A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
- 2. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte ...
- 3. A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
- 4. A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give ...
- 5. All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from ...
- 6. As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him
- 7. As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con ...
- 8. Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason ...
- 9. Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
- 10. Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
- 11. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
- 12. Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
- 13. Despair is the only genuine atheism.
- 14. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
- 15. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
- 16. Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
- 17. Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, ...
- 18. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
- 19. Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
- 20. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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