Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 7

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• There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Volume, Sentences

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

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  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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  Time, Passion, Vices

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• We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

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  Mind, Would Be, Esteem

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• Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

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  Simplicity, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Subjects

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• It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

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  Flower, Simple, Expression

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• He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

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  Friendship, Friends, Weakness

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• The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

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  Way, Familiar, Familiarity

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.21

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• In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

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  Gold, Use, Coins

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Fear loves the idea of danger.

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  Fear, Ideas, Fear Of Love

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.59

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• It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Polish

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

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• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

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  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

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• Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

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  Inspirational, Life Is, Duty

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

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• Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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  Innocence

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• In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

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  Ambition, Greed, Matter

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

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  Vanity, Would Be, Handsome

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• A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

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  Wisdom, Taken, Finished

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

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• I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

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  Country, Paris, Quitting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.18

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• When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

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  Appreciation, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

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  Reflection, Light, Wings

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

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  Success, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

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  Men, Heaven, Religion

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• National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

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  Literature, Fables, Ends

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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  Miracle, Trickery, Credulity

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