Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERTKindness is loving people more than they deserve.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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To teach is to learn twice.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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