We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. — Joseph Joubert Mistrust 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 Commendable Copy Share Image
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. — Joseph Joubert Desire Copy Share Image
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. — Joseph Joubert Joy Copy Share Image
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Anywhere Copy Share Image
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. — Joseph Joubert Confidence Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Ambition Copy Share Image
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. — Joseph Joubert Humor Copy Share Image
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. — Joseph Joubert Duty Copy Share Image
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. — Joseph Joubert Handsome Copy Share Image
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? — Joseph Joubert Introducing Copy Share Image
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. — Joseph Joubert Always believe Copy Share Image
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an… — Joseph Joubert Discipline Copy Share Image
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes,… — Joseph Joubert Erudition Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. — Joseph Joubert Easy Copy Share Image
