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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTTo teach is to learn twice.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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 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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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