Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience… — Joseph Joubert Audience Copy Share Image
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. — Joseph Joubert Delight 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 Fortune Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one… — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002” — Joseph Joubert Imagination Copy Share Image
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. — Joseph Joubert Clock Copy Share Image
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. — Joseph Joubert Cry Copy Share Image
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn… — Joseph Joubert Age 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
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. — Joseph Joubert Philosophy Copy Share Image
The mind's direction is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert Direction Copy Share Image
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Agriculture Copy Share Image
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. — Joseph Joubert Creating beauty Copy Share Image
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. — Joseph Joubert Authorship Copy Share Image
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. — Joseph Joubert Eloquent Copy Share Image
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. — Joseph Joubert Dad Copy Share Image
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
