Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
