In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. — Joseph Joubert Fear 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
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Essence Copy Share Image
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to… — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Ambition Copy Share Image
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. — Joseph Joubert Ambition Copy Share Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. — Joseph Joubert Genius Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. — Joseph Joubert Love Copy Share Image
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert Direction Copy Share Image
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. — Joseph Joubert Admiration Copy Share Image
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert Authority Copy Share Image
