All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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