You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. — Joseph Joubert 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 Copy Share Image
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. — Joseph Joubert 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
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling… — 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
