God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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