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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The 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.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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