Zitat des Tages von Jean Paul:
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.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
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.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Weaklings must lie.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
