All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWords, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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 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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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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