Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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