Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. — Joseph Joubert Duty Copy Share Image
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. — Joseph Joubert Authorship Copy Share Image
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. — Joseph Joubert Grammar Copy Share Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Ideas Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — 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 Heaven Copy Share Image
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge… — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Books Copy Share Image
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that… — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. — Joseph Joubert Argument Copy Share Image
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Adults Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — 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 Bounds Copy Share Image
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when… — Joseph Joubert Beauty 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
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed… — Joseph Joubert Charm Copy Share Image
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Brutal Copy Share Image
