Jean Paul Quotations | Page 2

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

A scholar knows no boredom.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

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