Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTJustice is the truth in action.
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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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A part of kindness consists in 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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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