Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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