The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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