146 Quotes by Jean Paul

Paradise is always where love dwells.

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

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

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

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

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

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

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