We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThere was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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