Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 6

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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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• Chance generally favors the prudent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Fate, Favors

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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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, People, Profound

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Gratitude, Blessing, Evil

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

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• TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Moments, Hostile

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• Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

  Joseph Joubert

  Excess, Delight, Deprived

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Chains That Bind, Memorial

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Hiking, Arguing

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• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Agriculture, Kind, Excellent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

  Joseph Joubert

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

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• We disjoint the mind like the body.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Body

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• He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

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

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• The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

  Joseph Joubert

  Heart, Men, Silence

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

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• Tenderness is the rest of passion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Tenderness

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• Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

  Joseph Joubert

  Light, Shadow, Made

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• Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Slave, Force

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Illusion, Charm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

  Joseph Joubert

  Luxury, Taste, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.108

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• Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Justice, Waking, Speak

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• To see the world is to judge the judges.

  Joseph Joubert

  Travel, Judging, World

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• All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

  Joseph Joubert

  War, Order, Born

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• Space is to place as eternity is to time.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Space, Eternity

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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