“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“Everything has its poetry. 94”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة”
“Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.”
“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.”
Source: Some of the
“Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”
Source: Some of the
“Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.”
“In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.”
“Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Some of the
“Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“Think of the ills from which you are exempt.”
Source: Some of the
“Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.”
“Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.”
“There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Some of the
“The evening of life brings with it its lamps.”
Source: Some of the
“Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.”
“Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.”
“We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“In bringing up a child, think of its old age.”
Source: Some of the