Joseph Joubert

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

— Joseph Joubert

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

— Joseph Joubert

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

— Joseph Joubert

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

— Joseph Joubert

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

— Joseph Joubert

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

— Joseph Joubert

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

— Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

— Joseph Joubert

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything…

— Joseph Joubert

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

— Joseph Joubert

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

— Joseph Joubert

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind…

— Joseph Joubert

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and…

— Joseph Joubert

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and…

— Joseph Joubert

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

— Joseph Joubert

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

— Joseph Joubert

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

— Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

— Joseph Joubert

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

— Joseph Joubert

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

— Joseph Joubert

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

— Joseph Joubert

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

— Joseph Joubert

“Children always want to look behind mirrors.”

— Joseph Joubert

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

— Joseph Joubert

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience…

— Joseph Joubert

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

— Joseph Joubert

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

— Joseph Joubert

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

— Joseph Joubert

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

— Joseph Joubert

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

— Joseph Joubert

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

— Joseph Joubert

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

— Joseph Joubert

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

— Joseph Joubert

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

— Joseph Joubert

God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

— Joseph Joubert

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

— Joseph Joubert

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

— Joseph Joubert

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

— Joseph Joubert