Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Space is the stature of God.
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