3 December 2020 Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul 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.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul 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.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
