We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWords, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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