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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Jean Paul

Heart

Hair

Reason

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Jean Paul

Thought

Act

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.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Jean Paul

Age

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

Jean Paul

Time

Danger

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Jean Paul

Character

Man

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul

Men

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

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

Weaklings must lie.