Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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