Joseph Joubert Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
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.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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.
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.
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.
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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.
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.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.