You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. — Joseph Joubert Desire Copy Share Image
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. — Joseph Joubert Chastity Copy Share Image
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by… — Joseph Joubert Attention Copy Share Image
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves… — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Country Copy Share Image
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must… — Joseph Joubert Clarity Copy Share Image
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. — Joseph Joubert Feminism Copy Share Image
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. — Joseph Joubert Ideals Copy Share Image
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert Blessing Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert Artist Copy Share Image
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared. — Joseph Joubert Happiness Copy Share Image
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
