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Category: Jean Paul Richter

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

praise, flattery

Jean Paul Richter

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

meetings, partings

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jean Paul Richter

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Jean Paul Richter

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

enjoyment, pleasure