It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTYou will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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