“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” — Joseph Joubert Argument Copy Share Image
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert Bears Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself… — Joseph Joubert Loving nature Copy Share Image
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from… — Joseph Joubert Country Copy Share Image
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. — Joseph Joubert Appetite Copy Share Image
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an… — Joseph Joubert Discipline Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. — 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 Age 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 Bird Copy Share Image
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes,… — Joseph Joubert Erudition 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
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. — Joseph Joubert Joy Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Excellence Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a… — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Books Copy Share Image
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