Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert 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 Copy Share Image
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert 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
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
