Top 50 Quotes by Jean Paul

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.

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

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.