We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTPoliteness is the flower of humanity.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Space is the stature of God.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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