Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOnly choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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