Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert Authority Copy Share Image
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert Deceiving Copy Share Image
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Brazen Copy Share Image
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. — Joseph Joubert Ideals Copy Share Image
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. — Joseph Joubert Credulity Copy Share Image
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but… — Joseph Joubert Assured Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert Conform Copy Share Image
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man — Joseph Joubert Friendship Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Excellence Copy Share Image
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them. — Joseph Joubert Fall Copy Share Image
We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Arguments Copy Share Image
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of… — Joseph Joubert Arise Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Country Copy Share Image
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. — Joseph Joubert Multitudes Copy Share Image
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I… — Joseph Joubert Cheat Copy Share Image
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. — Joseph Joubert Bottom Copy Share Image
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad… — Joseph Joubert Bad thing Copy Share Image
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert Bears Copy Share Image
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the… — Joseph Joubert Ads Copy Share Image
