Jean Paul Quotes

The look of a king is itself a deed.

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

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

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

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

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

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

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

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

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.

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

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