Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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To teach is to learn twice.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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