When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever cut what you can untie.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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