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Joseph Joubert

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
— Joseph Joubert ambition
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
— Joseph Joubert best
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
— Joseph Joubert wit
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
— Joseph Joubert men
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
— Joseph Joubert pain
Chance generally favors the prudent.
— Joseph Joubert chance
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
— Joseph Joubert friendship
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
— Joseph Joubert mind
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
— Joseph Joubert soul
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
— Joseph Joubert learning
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections, and the truth of imagination.
— Joseph Joubert truth
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
— Joseph Joubert humanity
Never cut what you can untie.
— Joseph Joubert you
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
— Joseph Joubert life
Children need models more than they need critics.
— Joseph Joubert children
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
— Joseph Joubert pain
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
— joseph joubert work
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
— joseph joubert work
To teach is to learn twice.
— joseph joubert learn
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
— joseph joubert light
The soul paints itself in our machines.
— joseph joubert pain
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
— joseph joubert love
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
— joseph joubert future
Everything is made through images. They enter us through all the other senses, as through the eye. An echo (they say) is an image of the voice. All our affections are produced by images of touching. Our whole body is a mirror.
— joseph joubert age
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
— joseph joubert spirituality
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.
— joseph joubert wit
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
— Joseph Joubert words
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable
— Joseph Joubert religion
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it
— Joseph Joubert man
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
— Joseph Joubert poetry
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
— Joseph Joubert men
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
— Joseph Joubert doubt
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
— Joseph Joubert thinking
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people
— Joseph Joubert people
Justice is the truth in action.
— Joseph Joubert truth
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
— Joseph Joubert soul
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
— Joseph Joubert time
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
— Joseph Joubert wit
Children need models rather than critics.
— Joseph Joubert children
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
— Joseph Joubert self
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
— Joseph Joubert books
We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own
— Joseph Joubert men
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
— Joseph Joubert you
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
— Joseph Joubert feelings
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
— Joseph Joubert art
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
— Joseph Joubert poetry
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
— Joseph Joubert innocence
It is easy to understand God as long as you dont try to explain him.
— Joseph Joubert god
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
— Joseph Joubert work
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
— Joseph Joubert love
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
— Joseph Joubert writer
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
— Joseph Joubert learning
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
— Joseph Joubert marriage
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
— Joseph Joubert pain
Space is the stature of God.
— Joseph Joubert god
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
— Joseph Joubert religion
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
— Joseph Joubert best
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
— Joseph Joubert mind
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
— Joseph Joubert pain
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
— Joseph Joubert passion
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
— Joseph Joubert art
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
— Joseph Joubert
Ask the young. They know everything.
— Joseph Joubert you
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
— Joseph Joubert self

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