“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” — Joseph Joubert Argument Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert Direction Copy Share Image
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able… — Joseph Joubert 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
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Excellence Copy Share Image
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a… — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Books Copy Share Image
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. — Joseph Joubert Admiration Copy Share Image
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes — Joseph Joubert Letter writing Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert Authority Copy Share Image
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. — Joseph Joubert Antiquity Copy Share Image
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. — Joseph Joubert Fear Copy Share Image
