"Innocence is always unsuspicious." — Joseph Joubert
"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
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168 Quotes by Joseph Joubert
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- Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
- The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
- All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
- How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
- Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
- Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
- Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
- Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
- Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
- Chance generally favors the prudent.
- Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.