Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it… — 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
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — 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
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
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead,… — 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
