The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTTo teach is to learn twice.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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