Jean Paul

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.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.