Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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