We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWho ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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