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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
— Joseph Joubert
The breath of the mind is attention 128
— Joseph Joubert
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
— Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
— Joseph Joubert
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
— 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
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
— Joseph Joubert
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
— Irma Joubert
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
— Joseph Joubert
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
— Joseph Joubert
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
— Joseph Joubert
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
— Joseph Joubert
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
— Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
— 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
Close your eyes and see.
— Joseph Joubert
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
— Joseph Joubert
Everything has its poetry. 94
— Joseph Joubert
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
— 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
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
— Joseph Joubert
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
— 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
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
— Joseph Joubert
Work like you don't need the money.
— Joseph Joubert
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
— Joseph Joubert
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
— Joseph Joubert
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
— Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
— Joseph Joubert
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
— Joseph Joubert
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
— Joseph Joubert
Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?
— Joseph Joubert
We disjoint the mind like the body.
— Joseph Joubert
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
— Joseph Joubert
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
— Joseph Joubert
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
— Joseph Joubert
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
— 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
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
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
— Joseph Joubert
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
— Joseph Joubert
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
— Joseph Joubert
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
— Joseph Joubert
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
— Joseph Joubert
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
— Joseph Joubert
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
— Joseph Joubert
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
— Joseph Joubert
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.
— Joseph Joubert
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
— Joseph Joubert
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
— Joseph Joubert
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
— Joseph Joubert
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
— Joseph Joubert
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
— 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
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
— 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
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
— Joseph Joubert
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
— Joseph Joubert
Close your eyes and you will see.
— Joseph Joubert
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
— Joseph Joubert
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
— Joseph Joubert
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
— Joseph Joubert
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
— Joseph Joubert
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002
— Joseph Joubert
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
— Joseph Joubert
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress (Joseph Joubert).
— David Webb
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
— Joseph Joubert
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
— 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
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
— 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
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
— Joseph Joubert
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
— Joseph Joubert
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
— Joseph Joubert
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
— Joseph Joubert
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
— Joseph Joubert
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
— Joseph Joubert
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
— Joseph Joubert
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
— Joseph Joubert
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
— Joseph Joubert
The soul paints itself in our machines.
— Joseph Joubert
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
— Joseph Joubert
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
— Joseph Joubert
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
— Joseph Joubert
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
— Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
— Joseph Joubert
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
— Joseph Joubert