Jean Paul

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like…

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm…

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have…

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality…

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence…

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life…

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it…

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

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted…

Live your life and forget your age…

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more…

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break…

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with…

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant…