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 JOUBERTWithout the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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