The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever cut what you can untie.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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 mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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