All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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