There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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