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Us Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold…
- Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
- It is always our inabilities that vex us.
- In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to…
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
- We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle