Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLove and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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