Jean Paul Quotes - Page 5

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• The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Golden, Purity

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

  Jean Paul

  Distance, Black, Sorrow

  "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.

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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.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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  Beauty, Men, Gold

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

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  Success, Men, Literature

  Jean Paul (1849). “Life of Jean Paul F. Richter”, p.148

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• The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Beautiful, Twilight

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• It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Criticism, Flattery

  "Titan: A Romance".

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• Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

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  Men, Heaven, Enjoy

  Jean Paul F. Richter (1848). “The Campaner Thal; or, Discourses on the immortality of the soul, tr. by J. Bauer”, p.12

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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.

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  Beauty, Party, Literature

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• Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

  Jean Paul

  Love Is, Hands, Band

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