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Jean Paul
Passion makes the...
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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Memory is the...
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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The end we...
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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Brevity is the...
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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No rest is...
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
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The child is...
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate...
Joys are our...
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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No heroine can...
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Only action gives...
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
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In youth one...
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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The parent is...
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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No one is...
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
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No author can...
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
Cares are often...
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former...
The timid are...
The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after...
Without God there...
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every...
Idleness is many...
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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The look of...
The look of a king is itself a deed.
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Humankind's chief fault...
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
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The more sand...
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through...
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