There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTInnocence is always unsuspicious.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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