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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGod is the place where I do not remember the rest.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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