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.
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 aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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