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Jean Paul Richter

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

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02Undated

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

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03Undated

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

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04Undated

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

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

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09Undated

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

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10Undated

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

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11Undated

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

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