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Jean Paul
Date de naissance: 21. mars 1763
Date de décès: 14. novembre 1825
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter , mieux connu sous le pseudonyme de Jean Paul, est un écrivain allemand.
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„When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter.“
— Jean Paul
Jean-Paul Richter, [https://archive.org/details/levanaordoctrine02jean Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education] 1807 1865 translation p. 1
„The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.“
— Jean Paul
As quoted in Treasury of Thought (1872) by Maturin M. Ballou, p. 521
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„When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.“
— Jean Paul
P. 238.
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„The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.“
— Jean Paul
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 366.
„Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.“
— Jean Paul
Titan (1800-3)
„Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.“
— Jean Paul
[http://books.google.ca/books?id=UMwMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6&hl=en Jean Paul's Geist; oder Chrestomathie], Vierter Theil [4th part], Weimar/Leipzig, 1816
