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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
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Johann Paul Richter
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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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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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
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Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
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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.
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Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.
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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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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.
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