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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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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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For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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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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In women everything is heart, even the head.
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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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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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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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The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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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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Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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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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