Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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