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• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany.
  The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land...
• Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. -- Jean Paul Richte
• A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.
  -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)...
• A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.
  -- Jean Paul Sartre...
• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. -- Jean Paul Richte
• In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our characte
  he multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual....
• The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
  -- Jean-Paul Kauffma...