When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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