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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
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
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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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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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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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In women everything is heart, even the head.
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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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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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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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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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The German language is the organ among the languages.
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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
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The look of a king is itself a deed.
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
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