Joseph Joubert quotes - page 2

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. (Joseph Joubert)
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. View quote
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To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it. View quote
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To see the world is to judge the judges. View quote
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Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. View quote
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Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement. View quote
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Tenderness is the rest of passion. View quote
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. View quote
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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. View quote
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. View quote
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When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. (Joseph Joubert)
The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it. View quote
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology. View quote
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. View quote
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The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever. View quote
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It is impossible to love the same person twice. View quote
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We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. View quote
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. View quote
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He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing. View quote
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What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. View quote
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The breath of the mind is attention. (Joseph Joubert)
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. View quote
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. View quote
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A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. View quote
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself. View quote
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