Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 11

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• One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Joy, Religion

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• In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Coins

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• Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Grief, Joy, Soul

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• In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

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  Children, Thinking, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

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• The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

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  Character, Style, Letters

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134

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• Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

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  Sound, Logic, Grammar

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

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  Law, Action, Enlightening

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

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  Fall, May, Dregs

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.106

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

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  Passion, Hatred, Feelings

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• I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

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  Littles, Moral, Prudence

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• The soul paints itself in our machines.

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  Soul, Machines, Paint

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• 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.

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  Book, Men, Religion

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• Space is the stature of God.

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  God, Space, Star Gazing

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

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  Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

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• God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

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  Remember

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• Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

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  Surprise, Wells, Audience

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• We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

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  God, Constrain, Knows

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• Heaven is for those who think of it.

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  Thinking, Heaven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.35

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• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

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  People, Meals, Fabric

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• Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

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  Fate, Unconquerable

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• Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

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  Thinking

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.91

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• Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

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  Philosophy

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• Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

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  Energy, Talent, Muscles

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• The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

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  Lying, Soul, Energy

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

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  Self Esteem, Men, Long

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