Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 March 1763
CountryGermany
dancing develop exercise exercises muscles powers single
Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
laughs laughter profoundly sad
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
gathered idleness miseries
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
collection women
I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all sportswear. But it's very much like daytime, but elegant.
choice condemned free
I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.
french-philosopher illusion life loose meaning moment
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
books-and-reading call interested might phone send somebody
If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book.
confuse dreamers truth
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
heart men devouring
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
wise character people
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.
paris revolution french-revolution
In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.
selfish knives people
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.
wise taken reflection
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake...
fate men people
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.