German - Author | March 21, 1763 - November 14, 1825
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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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.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
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