Famous Joseph Joubert Quotations

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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
by Joseph Joubert
"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."
by Joseph Joubert
"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
by Joseph Joubert
"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."
by Joseph Joubert
"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
by Joseph Joubert
"An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory."
by Gary L. Francione
"God has commanded Time to console the unhappy"
by Joseph Joubert
"In bringing up a child, think of its old age"
by Joseph Joubert
"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."
by Joseph Joubert
"Never cut what you can untie."
by Joseph Joubert
"The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb."
by Joseph Joubert
"There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge"
by Joseph Joubert
"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
by Joseph Joubert
"Children need models rather than critics."
by Joseph Joubert
"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
by Joseph Joubert
"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
by Joseph Joubert
"Chance generally favors the prudent."
by Joseph Joubert
"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."
by Joseph Joubert
"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
by Joseph Joubert
"We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible."
by Joseph Joubert
"Ornaments were invented by modesty."
by Joseph Joubert
"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."
by Joseph Joubert
"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."
by Joseph Joubert
"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
by Joseph Joubert
"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
by Joseph Joubert
"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
by Joseph Joubert
"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
by Joseph Joubert
"Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better."
by Joseph Joubert
"Tenderness is the rest of passion."
by Joseph Joubert
"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."
by Joseph Joubert


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