Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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