It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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