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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTTo teach is to learn twice.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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