Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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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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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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