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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTImagination is the eye of the soul.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Space is the stature of God.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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