Author of quotes: Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)

We lack jokes, because it lacks seriousness, which replaces now all equalizing wits that still laughs over virtue and Vice and abolishes them.

Imaginary hatred is much easier to turn into reality than an imaginary love.

We now have more learning than the scholars, and likewise the virtues of more than virtuous people.

The human conscience can err, but the people can not be shameless.

The farther from the moral ideal, the more characteristic is at the disposal of the artist. That's why the demi - Poluchite always be better than the demigods.

True morality directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.

The one who carries the light, stumbles more often than the one who follows.

Wise Apollo knew that the best hunting dogs, best running lightweight runners that skinny Pegasus fitter heavy riding horse that flint needed to strike fire. So he rewarded their favorites with poverty, ennobled their souls by the price of their body and gave them little to live for that they live forever.

Respectable people are gaining more and more enemies with words, rather than the bad - their business.

There's nothing more dangerous than to reconcile two people. To embroil them much safer and easier.

When women are talking about women, they especially praise the beautiful mind and the beauty of the smart, the voice of a peacock and plumage of the Nightingale.

Only beautiful people can be when asking for forgiveness or himself forgives.

Dancing for women the same as playing cards for men: beautiful free time for the language, which is often helpful and often harmful.

Who in old age can do without love, is not loved in his youth, because of love for years, not a hindrance.