Jean Paul Richter Love Quotes and Sayings, Credit: Wikipedia
Jean Paul Richter Love Quotes and Sayings
#1-4 Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education, Translated from the German
1. And, finally, ye parents, teach to love, and you will need no ten commandments; teach to love, and a rich, winning life is opened to your child: for man (if this simile be permitted) resembles Austria, which increases its territory by marriage but loses its acquisitions by war: teach to love, in this age which is the winter of time, and which can more easily conquer every thing than a heart by a heart; teach to love, so that when your eyes are old, and their sense almost extinguished, you may yet find round your sick couch and dying bed no greedy, covetous looks, but anxious weeping eyes, which strive to warm your freezing life, and lighten the darkness of your last hour by thanks for their first… [S]
2. No love is sweeter than that which follows severity; so from the bitter olive is sweet, soft oil expressed. [S]
3. If love were not natural to us we could never hate. [S]
4. And just so in marriage: love is not preserved by gifts, pleasures and sacrifices, whose influence soon disappears, but by words and looks of love. [S]
#5 Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces, Translated from the German by Alexander Ewing
5. Oh beloved! I would the dream would show me mankind’s love. Love such as hearts which meet once more in bliss after long painful parting only know. [S]
#6 Titan, Translated from the German by Charles T. Brooks
6. Age respects love, but, unlike youth, it respects little the signs of love. [S]
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
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Sayings by Jean Paul Richter
#1-4 Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education, Translated from the German
1. Reason teaches us to be silent; the heart teaches us to speak. [S]
2. The clear sky of child-like open-heartedness must not be covered even by the morning glow of shame; and your instructions will soon teach him to add secrets of his own to yours. [S]
3. A child has invariably so great a love of hearing that he will constantly ask questions about matters which he knows, merely in order to hear you speak; or will even tell you some little story, so as to have the pleasure of hearing you afterwards talk about it to him. [S]
4. Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all the paths of life. [S]
#5-7 Titan, Translated from the German by Charles T. Brooks
5. …music, — that real moonlight in every gloomy night of life. [S]
6. …there was nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness on an old face… [S]
7. …only actions give life strength, only moderation gives it a charm. [S]
#8-9 Life of Jean Paul Frederic Richter by Eliza Buckminster Lee
8. I would gladly, after my death, have that, which has never yet happened to any author, all my thoughts given to the world,—not one should be concealed. [S]
9. Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities for good actions, but make use of common situations. A long-continued walk is better than a short flight. [S]
#10 Sharpe’s London Magazine
10. We learn our virtues from the bosom friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real form from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
#11 The Invisible Lodge, Translated by Charles T. Brooks [S]
11. Man is never so beautiful as when he begs or grants forgiveness.