Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Fortune Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one… — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002” — Joseph Joubert Imagination 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 Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge… — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert 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 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 Copy Share Image
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we… — Joseph Joubert Company Copy Share Image
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when… — Joseph Joubert Beauty 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 Copy Share Image
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed… — Joseph Joubert Charm 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
