The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGenius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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