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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.”
“The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.”
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“Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.”
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“The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”
“How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!”
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“Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.”
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“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
“Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.”
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“Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.”
“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”
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“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.”
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“Space is the stature of God.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.”
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“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
“It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.”
“Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.”
“Our worries always come from our weaknesses.”
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“To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”
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“Before using a fine word, make a place for it.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.”
“Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.”
“When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.”
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“Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.”
“Ornaments were invented by modesty.”
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“Virtue is the health of the soul.”
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“When we love, it is the heart that judges.”
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“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”
“Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.”
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“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”
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