Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 11

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• One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

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  Wife, Widows, Dignity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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  Religion, Iliad

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

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  Witty, Men, Wit

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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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• The soul paints itself in our machines.

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  Soul, Machines, Paint

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• A temperate style is alone classical.

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  Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

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  Book, Reading, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

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  Distance, History, Perspective

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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• Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

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  Fate, Unconquerable

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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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• Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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  Writing, Fine Words, Fine

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

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

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  Gold, Use, Coins

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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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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

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  Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

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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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• Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

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  Success, Reflection, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.32

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• Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

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  Morning, Children, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

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  Ruins, Reconstruction, Antiquity

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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.

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  Grief, Joy, Soul

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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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• Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

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  Speech, Incorporation

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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