What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself. — Joseph Joubert Add Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Deserve Copy Share Image
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Difficulty Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Appreciate Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert Essentials Copy Share Image
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything… — Joseph Joubert Dissolving Copy Share Image
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. — Joseph Joubert All time Copy Share Image
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves… — Joseph Joubert Action 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 Born Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing… — Joseph Joubert Air Copy Share Image
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. — Joseph Joubert Looks Copy Share Image
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002” — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Poetry Copy Share Image
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. — Joseph Joubert Cry Copy Share Image
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert Direction Copy Share Image
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. — Joseph Joubert Charming Copy Share Image
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able… — Joseph Joubert Able Copy Share Image
