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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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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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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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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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Repetition is the mother of education.
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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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With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
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Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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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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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.
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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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