Joseph Joubert quotes - page 12

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. (Joseph Joubert)
It is an aspect of happiness to suppose we all deserve it. View quote
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Whoever does not see in a good light is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover. Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good. View quote
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To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think. View quote
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Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. View quote
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To draw up in advance an exact and detailed plan is to deprive our minds of the pleasures of the encounter and the novelty that comes from executing the work. View quote
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. View quote
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There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. View quote
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Virtue is the health of the soul. View quote
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The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts. View quote
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. (Joseph Joubert)
The paper is patient, but the reader is not. View quote
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Chance generally favors the prudent. View quote
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. View quote
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity. View quote
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless it cannot hold itself together. View quote
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray. View quote
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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. View quote
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. View quote
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. View quote
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. (Joseph Joubert)
Heaven is for those who think of it. View quote
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. View quote
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience. View quote
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Ornaments were invented by modesty. View quote
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