Jean Paul

Who was Jean Paul?

Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.

Famous Quotes:

• Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
• Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
• No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
• Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
• Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
• Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
• The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
• Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
• Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
• The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.