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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTA part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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