Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 March 1763
CountryGermany
life success character
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
fathers-day children world
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
beautiful faces aging
Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
law miracle heaven
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
break-up nature air
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
beautiful forgiveness humanity
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
friendship departed world
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
inspirational strength get-well-soon
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
love beautiful summer
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
inspirational life new-year
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
inspirational people praise
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
life courage time
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
love paradise romantic-inspirational
Paradise is always where love dwells.
fall flower heaven
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.