Jean Paul Richter Quotes

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

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

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

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

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

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

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.