Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an… — Joseph Joubert Discipline Copy Share Image
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard. — Joseph Joubert Enters Copy Share Image
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert Bears Copy Share Image
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to… — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself… — Joseph Joubert Loving nature Copy Share Image
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Essence Copy Share Image
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. — Joseph Joubert Cry Copy Share Image
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn… — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Ambition Copy Share Image
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to… — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
