Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience… — Joseph Joubert Audience Copy Share Image
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert Artist Copy Share Image
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared. — Joseph Joubert Happiness Copy Share Image
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. — Joseph Joubert Authorship Copy Share Image
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything… — Joseph Joubert 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
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are… — Joseph Joubert Bible 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
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
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. — Joseph Joubert Duty Copy Share Image
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. — Joseph Joubert Desire Copy Share Image
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Ideas Copy Share Image
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. — Joseph Joubert Grammar Copy Share Image
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. — Joseph Joubert Feminism Copy Share Image
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. — Joseph Joubert Ideals Copy Share Image
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. — Joseph Joubert Chastity Copy Share Image
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. — Joseph Joubert Friend Copy Share Image
