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Jean Paul (21 March 1763-14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories

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

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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

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Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good

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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

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Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

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For them Eugene Ndereyimana was Eugene Ndereyimana.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago

We are a world made of different people and anyone of us has beauty. You have to see it.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago

My dreams as a young child became reality ... to see it I've lived that already but to make it I wanted to give homage to all the people that inspired me, the cities that inspired me.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago

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