Quotes by : Jean Paul

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.....

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil....

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

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

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm....

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.