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Men Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and…
- The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
- Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
- Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
- What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
- I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and…
- We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
- One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
- Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
- One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
- One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the…
- Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
- The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach…
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