Fortune Quote by Joseph Joubert

“If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.”

Joseph Joubert

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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,…

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Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

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What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

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Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

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How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

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We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

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Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

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We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

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