Jean Paul

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

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