Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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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 better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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