Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy — Joseph Joubert Doubtful Copy Share Image
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Brutal Copy Share Image
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. — Joseph Joubert Friends Copy Share Image
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. — Joseph Joubert Philosophy Copy Share Image
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. — Joseph Joubert Dread Copy Share Image
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree… — Joseph Joubert Degrees 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 Deserve Copy Share Image
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. — Joseph Joubert Admiration Copy Share Image
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. — Joseph Joubert Grammar Copy Share Image
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn… — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. — Joseph Joubert Delight Copy Share Image
