Joseph Joubert quotes - page 10

In living, one learns how to read. (How, and with what result.) (Joseph Joubert)
All religions = all women. View quote
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God made life to be lived and not to be known. View quote
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Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better. View quote
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In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing. View quote
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Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking. View quote
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Illusions comes from heaven and mistakes come from us. View quote
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Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks. View quote
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The imagination is an eye where images remain forever. View quote
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Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God. View quote
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The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. (Joseph Joubert)
The truth. They make it consist of nothing they cannot prove. The greatest happiness they find in it is being able to put forth incontestable assertions. This is what they like, and they consider it a sign of prestige, a prerogative, a power, a dignity, etc., a liberation from error. View quote
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What good is modesty? - It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly. View quote
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In these times when, to express ourselves, we must speak in a way others do not. View quote
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It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything. View quote
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When I had the strength, I did not have the patience. I have the patience today and I no longer have the power. View quote
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Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all. View quote
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What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship. View quote
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The truth! Only God sees it. View quote
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All these young minds the revolution has heated up and brought to flower before their time, before their age. View quote
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Melancholy: when we have sorrows without a name. (Joseph Joubert)
One ruins the mind with too much writing. - One rusts it by not writing at all. View quote
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There is an infinity of things one does well only through necessity. View quote
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...burdened with the unbearable weight of ourselves. View quote
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Anger makes us adroit. View quote
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