Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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To teach is to learn twice.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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