Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How… — 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
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to… — 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
