Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 5

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• Politeness is the flower of humanity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Meaningful, Flower, Humanity

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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• How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Way

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Math, Logic, Metaphysics

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Air, Voice

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• When we love, it is the heart that judges.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Heart, Judging

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Bees, Reason, Usefulness

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• When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Relief, Trouble

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

  Joseph Joubert

  Military, Sound, Reason

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• Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Travel, Age

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• The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

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  Beautiful, Style, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Numbers, Wish

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Slander is the solace of malignity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Slander, Solace

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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• The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

  Joseph Joubert

  Age, Lamps, Evening

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, May

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• Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

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  Inspirational, Destiny, Men

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• How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

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  Strength, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

  Joseph Joubert

  Window, Strikes

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Consolation

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Chance generally favors the prudent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Fate, Favors

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• All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Leisure, Made, Verses

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fathers Day, Dad, Rip

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• You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

  Joseph Joubert

  Rolling Along, Pebbles, Grain

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• Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

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  Order, People, Profound

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• If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

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  Gratitude, Blessing, Evil

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

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• Close your eyes and you will see.

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  Eye, Vision, Awe

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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