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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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The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.
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It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity 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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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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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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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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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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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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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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.
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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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