Jean Richter
Jean Richter
approach crooked less paths puzzled seems
What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end
bolt key night prayer
Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night
drag life speed tries
As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up
truly
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted
completed final human men perfection rebirth souls stone suffer thrown turns undergo wheel
All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.
laughs profoundly sad
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much
good harm medicine women
The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
assume bear body flowers flying happiness holy inward lovely outward poetry rich spring tender
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, w