Inspirational Quotes by Joseph Joubert · Page 2

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

— Joseph Joubert

Justice is the right of the weakest.

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

— Joseph Joubert

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

— Joseph Joubert

The breath of the mind is attention 128

— Joseph Joubert

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched…

— Joseph Joubert

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

— Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

— Joseph Joubert

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

— Joseph Joubert

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

— Joseph Joubert

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

— Joseph Joubert

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

— Joseph Joubert

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

— Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

— Joseph Joubert

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

— Joseph Joubert

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

— Joseph Joubert

“Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois”

— Joseph Joubert

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

— Joseph Joubert

Heaven is for those who think of it.

— Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

— Joseph Joubert

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

— Joseph Joubert