In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. — Joseph Joubert Ambition Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. — Joseph Joubert Genius Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. — Joseph Joubert Love Copy Share Image
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from… — Joseph Joubert Country Copy Share Image
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. — Joseph Joubert Appetite Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Agriculture Copy Share Image
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. — Joseph Joubert Creating beauty Copy Share Image
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. — Joseph Joubert Authorship Copy Share Image
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. — Joseph Joubert Eloquent Copy Share Image
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. — Joseph Joubert Dad Copy Share Image
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
