Top 50 Quotes by Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

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.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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