71 Quotations by Jean Paul Richter
- 21. Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

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

- 23. Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

- 24. In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multi ...

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

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

- 27. Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

- 28. Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

- 29. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt ...

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

- 31. Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

- 32. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet ag ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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