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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGrace 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.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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