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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.”
“Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.”
“Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.”
“Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.”
“Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.”
“There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.”
“Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.”
“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
“The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.”
“What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.”
“We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.”
“One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.”