Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Kindness is 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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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