Never cut what you can untie.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHe who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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