Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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