All Joseph Joubert Quotes
- Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. From
- Our worries always come from our weaknesses. Always Come
- To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it. Capable
- Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… Appreciate
- Before using a fine word, make a place for it. Fine
- Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. Clear
- We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold… Assured
- We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. Always Believe
- Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Destiny
- How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and… Asleep
- Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. Feel
- A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed… All
- Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. Abridgment
- When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. Eye
- We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. Abound
- Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. Answers
- You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. Ears
- Ornaments were invented by modesty. Inspirational
- Virtue is the health of the soul. Health
- When we love, it is the heart that judges. Heart