Pensées of Joubert
A source page for quotes linked to Joseph Joubert.
“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”
“Everything has its poetry. 94”
“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”
“Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.”
“The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.”
“The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.”
“Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.”
“If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.”
“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”
“Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy”
“Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.”
“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.”
“Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”
“Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.”
“Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.”
“Think of the ills from which you are exempt.”
“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.”
“Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.”
“The evening of life brings with it its lamps.”
“Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.”
“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.”
“The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.”
“In bringing up a child, think of its old age.”