Joseph Joubert quotes - page 5

They speak to the ear. I want to speak to the memory. (Joseph Joubert)
Tacitus. And all those words that are obscure only once. View quote
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When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do. View quote
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The things we know when not thinking of them. View quote
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I am like Montaigne: "unsuited to continuous discourse." View quote
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The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them. View quote
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The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death. View quote
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When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult. View quote
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You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth. View quote
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To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears. View quote
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We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem. (Joseph Joubert)
To let the reader complete the symmetry between words and do no more than suggest it. View quote
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The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering. View quote
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The truth by way of illusion. View quote
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People of intelligence often treat business in the way ignorant people treat books: they understand nothing. View quote
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I stop when I see no more light; it is impossible for me to write by feeling my way. View quote
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Whoever consults the light within himself (it is within everyone) excels at judging the object this light illumines. View quote
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All these philosophers are no more than surgeons. View quote
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In this painting of our life given to us by our memories, everything is moving and depends on our point of view. View quote
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All those whom for style is not a game but a labor. View quote
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Adventurous minds, which wait for and receieve their ideas only from chance. (Joseph Joubert)
What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? View quote
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We are worth more when someone looks at us. And, because of this, an eye is always watching us. View quote
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An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts. View quote
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Let us remember that everything is double. View quote
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