Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERTYou will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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