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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOnly choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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