A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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 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.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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 mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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