“In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.”
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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.”
Source: Some of the
“We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.”
“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”
Source: Some of the
“What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?”
Source: Some of the
“The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Slander is the solace of malignity.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Speech is but the incorporation of thought.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“A temperate style is alone classical.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Some of the
“It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.”
“Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!”
“Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.”