All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe 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.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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