Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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