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Joseph Joubert
French
Writer
About the author
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Love
#Truth
#Opinions
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Children
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Humanity
#Politeness
Space is the stature of God.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#God
#Space
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Time
#Eternity
#Space
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Religion
#Superstition
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Will
#Poetry
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Temper
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Mind
#Progress
#Direction
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Mind
#Pain
#Delight
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Will
#Poetry
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Time
#Now
#World
#Books
#Act
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Past
#Respect
#Present
#Future
#Safety
#Mistrust
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Bees
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Opinions
#Feelings
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#World
#Spiritual
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Words
#Vision
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Man
#Friend
#Woman
#Marriage
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Argument
#Progress
#Victory
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Old
#Vices
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,
French
Writer
#Grace
#Beauty
#Manners
#Feelings
#Spirituality
#Moderation
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,
French
Writer
#Bible
#Men
#Sense
#Books
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#People
#Kindness
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Order
Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Children
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Imagination
#Feet
#Learning
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#God
#Rest
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Imagination
#Feet
#Learning
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#People
#Shadows
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Love
#Fear
#Family
#Father
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Writer
#Pleasure
#Emotion
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Labor
#Genius
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Thinking
#Result
#Misery
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Eye
#Imagination
#Soul
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Logic
#Metaphysics
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#People
#Kindness
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Action
#Truth
#Justice
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#God
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Question
#Debate
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer
#Innocence
Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert,
French
Writer