Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Kindness is 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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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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Space is the stature of God.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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