Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTSuperstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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