We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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