Jean Paul Richter Quotes

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.
Jean Paul Richter
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.
Jean Paul Richter
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean Paul Richter
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul Richter
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.
Jean Paul Richter
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)
Jean Paul Richter
A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
Jean Paul Richter
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Jean Paul Richter
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean Paul Richter
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter