When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERTBe charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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