Jean Paul

"Live your life and forget your age."

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."

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

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."

"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."

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

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."

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

"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."

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."