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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first. -- Joseph Joubert
The soul paints itself in our machines. -- Joseph Joubert
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. -- Joseph Joubert
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them. -- Joseph Joubert
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. -- Joseph Joubert
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
Work like you don't need the money. -- Joseph Joubert
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. -- Joseph Joubert
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. -- Joseph Joubert
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. -- Joseph Joubert
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself. -- Joseph Joubert
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? -- Joseph Joubert
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. -- Joseph Joubert
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. -- Joseph Joubert
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another ... -- Joseph Joubert
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. -- Joseph Joubert
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. -- Joseph Joubert
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. -- Joseph Joubert
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders. -- Joseph Joubert
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. -- Joseph Joubert
Children always want to look behind mirrors. -- Joseph Joubert
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power. -- Joseph Joubert
Close your eyes and see. -- Joseph Joubert
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity. -- Joseph Joubert
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once. -- Joseph Joubert
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. -- Joseph Joubert
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. -- Joseph Joubert
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. -- Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie -- Joseph Joubert
I resemble the poplar,
that tree which, even when old, still looks young. -- Joseph Joubert
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes -- Joseph Joubert
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable. -- Joseph Joubert
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. -- Joseph Joubert
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures. -- Joseph Joubert
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. -- Joseph Joubert
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them. -- Joseph Joubert
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. -- Joseph Joubert
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity. -- Joseph Joubert
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity. -- Joseph Joubert
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. -- Joseph Joubert
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. -- Joseph Joubert
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. -- Joseph Joubert
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior. -- Joseph Joubert
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. -- Joseph Joubert
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. -- Joseph Joubert
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. -- Joseph Joubert
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! -- Joseph Joubert
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. -- Joseph Joubert
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. -- Joseph Joubert
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves. -- Joseph Joubert
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. -- Joseph Joubert
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. -- Joseph Joubert
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. -- Joseph Joubert
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream. -- Joseph Joubert
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. -- Joseph Joubert
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. -- Joseph Joubert
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. -- Joseph Joubert
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us. -- Joseph Joubert
In bringing up a child, think of its old age. -- Joseph Joubert
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life. -- Joseph Joubert
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? -- Joseph Joubert
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us. -- Joseph Joubert
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. -- Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. -- Joseph Joubert
Close your eyes and you will see. -- Joseph Joubert
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. -- Joseph Joubert
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. -- Joseph Joubert
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. -- Joseph Joubert
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them. -- Joseph Joubert
We disjoint the mind like the body. -- Joseph Joubert
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! -- Joseph Joubert
To see the world is to judge the judges. -- Joseph Joubert
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. -- Joseph Joubert
Ornaments were invented by modesty. -- Joseph Joubert
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. -- Joseph Joubert
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. -- Joseph Joubert
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. -- Joseph Joubert
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself. -- Joseph Joubert
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. -- Joseph Joubert
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. -- Joseph Joubert
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -- Joseph Joubert
When you give, give with joy and smiling. -- Joseph Joubert
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul. -- Joseph Joubert
We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds. -- Joseph Joubert
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason. -- Joseph Joubert
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. -- Joseph Joubert
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. -- Joseph Joubert
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. -- Joseph Joubert
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. -- Joseph Joubert
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. -- Joseph Joubert
I would fain coin wisdom, - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men - as base money - the words by which they cheat and are cheated! -- Joseph Joubert
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. -- Joseph Joubert
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective. -- Joseph Joubert
The evening of life brings with it its lamps. -- Joseph Joubert
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. -- Joseph Joubert
Children need models rather than critics. -- Joseph Joubert
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. -- Joseph Joubert
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. -- Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. -- Joseph Joubert
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. -- Joseph Joubert
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. -- Joseph Joubert
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. -- Joseph Joubert
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,
like everything inspired. -- Joseph Joubert
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. -- Joseph Joubert
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. -- Joseph Joubert
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them. -- Joseph Joubert
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. -- Joseph Joubert
Everything has its poetry. 94 -- Joseph Joubert
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
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. -- Joseph Joubert
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. -- Joseph Joubert
Fear loves the idea of danger. -- Joseph Joubert
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. -- Joseph Joubert
Living requires but little life; doing requires much. -- Joseph Joubert
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it. -- Joseph Joubert
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. -- Joseph Joubert
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. -- Joseph Joubert
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,
that is the secret of the fine arts. -- Joseph Joubert
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. -- Joseph Joubert
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. -- Joseph Joubert
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. -- Joseph Joubert
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. -- Joseph Joubert
Tenderness is the rest of passion. -- Joseph Joubert
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. -- Joseph Joubert
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. -- Joseph Joubert
Heaven is for those who think of it. -- Joseph Joubert
There are those to whom one must advise madness. -- Joseph Joubert
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination. -- Joseph Joubert
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. -- Joseph Joubert
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning. -- Joseph Joubert
Space is the stature of God. -- Joseph Joubert
Fate and necessity are unconquerable. -- Joseph Joubert
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. -- Joseph Joubert
In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver. -- Joseph Joubert
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. -- Joseph Joubert
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. -- Joseph Joubert
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002 -- Joseph Joubert
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. -- Joseph Joubert
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
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. -- Joseph Joubert
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. -- Joseph Joubert
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. -- Joseph Joubert
God is the place where I do not remember the rest. -- Joseph Joubert
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. -- Joseph Joubert
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. -- Joseph Joubert
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
Speech is but the incorporation of thought. -- Joseph Joubert
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. -- Joseph Joubert
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. -- Joseph Joubert
God has commanded Time to console the unhappy -- Joseph Joubert
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself. -- Joseph Joubert
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. -- Joseph Joubert
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty. -- Joseph Joubert
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. -- Joseph Joubert
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. -- Joseph Joubert
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. -- Joseph Joubert
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute. -- Joseph Joubert
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. -- Joseph Joubert
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen. -- Joseph Joubert
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. -- Joseph Joubert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -- Joseph Joubert
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop. -- Joseph Joubert
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. -- Joseph Joubert
It is always our inabilities that vex us. -- Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. -- Joseph Joubert
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. -- Joseph Joubert
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. -- Joseph Joubert
Our worries always come from our weaknesses. -- Joseph Joubert
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. -- Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. -- Joseph Joubert
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. -- Joseph Joubert
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral. -- Joseph Joubert
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. -- Joseph Joubert
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing. -- Joseph Joubert
Innocence is always unsuspicious. -- Joseph Joubert
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty! -- Joseph Joubert
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. -- Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. -- Joseph Joubert
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. -- Joseph Joubert
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark. -- Joseph Joubert
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry -- Joseph Joubert
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 -- Joseph Joubert
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. -- Joseph Joubert
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. -- Joseph Joubert
Which is more misshapen,
religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? -- Joseph Joubert
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. -- Joseph Joubert
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
The breath of the mind is attention 128 -- Joseph Joubert
When we love, it is the heart that judges. -- Joseph Joubert
Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved. -- Joseph Joubert
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. -- Joseph Joubert
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions. -- Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. -- Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. -- Joseph Joubert
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment. -- Joseph Joubert
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. -- Joseph Joubert
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. -- Joseph Joubert
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. -- Joseph Joubert
A temperate style is alone classical. -- Joseph Joubert
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men. -- Joseph Joubert
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. -- Joseph Joubert
The paper is patient, but the reader is not. -- Joseph Joubert
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. -- Joseph Joubert
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. -- Joseph Joubert
Tenderness is the repose of passion. -- Joseph Joubert
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success. -- Joseph Joubert
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. -- Joseph Joubert
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. -- Joseph Joubert
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. -- Joseph Joubert
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. -- Joseph Joubert
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,
defects which it is well not to correct. -- Joseph Joubert
Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet? -- Joseph Joubert
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? -- Joseph Joubert
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. -- Joseph Joubert
Politeness is the flower of humanity. -- Joseph Joubert
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. -- Joseph Joubert
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. -- Joseph Joubert
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. -- Joseph Joubert
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. -- Joseph Joubert
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. -- Joseph Joubert
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. -- Joseph Joubert
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. -- Joseph Joubert
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. -- Joseph Joubert
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. -- Joseph Joubert
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing. -- Joseph Joubert
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. -- Joseph Joubert
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. -- Joseph Joubert
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. -- Joseph Joubert
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. -- Joseph Joubert
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. -- Joseph Joubert
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. -- Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees. -- Joseph Joubert
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. -- Joseph Joubert
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. -- Joseph Joubert
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. -- Joseph Joubert
Ask the young. They know everything. -- Joseph Joubert
Our life is woven wind. -- Joseph Joubert
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- Joseph Joubert
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. -- Joseph Joubert
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. -- Joseph Joubert
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate. -- Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. -- Joseph Joubert
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared. -- Joseph Joubert
Think of the ills from which you are exempt. -- Joseph Joubert
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy -- Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. -- Joseph Joubert
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. -- Joseph Joubert
Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant. -- Joseph Joubert
The passions of the young are vices in the old. -- Joseph Joubert
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. -- Joseph Joubert
Slander is the solace of malignity. -- Joseph Joubert
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. -- Joseph Joubert
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard. -- Joseph Joubert
Justice is the right of the weakest. -- Joseph Joubert
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. -- Joseph Joubert
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself. -- Joseph Joubert
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. -- Joseph Joubert
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness. -- Joseph Joubert
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. -- Joseph Joubert
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. -- Joseph Joubert
Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course. -- Joseph Joubert
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. -- Joseph Joubert
Chance generally favors the prudent. -- Joseph Joubert
To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. -- Joseph Joubert
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience ... -- Joseph Joubert
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur. -- Joseph Joubert
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own -- Joseph Joubert
Justice is the truth in action. -- Joseph Joubert
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. -- Joseph Joubert
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. -- Joseph Joubert
Everything that is exact is short. -- Joseph Joubert
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. -- Joseph Joubert
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap. -- Joseph Joubert
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. -- Joseph Joubert
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. -- Joseph Joubert
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. -- Joseph Joubert
Imagination is the eye of the soul -- Joseph Joubert
