JJJoseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

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02Undated

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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03Undated

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

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04Undated

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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05Undated

Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.

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06Undated

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

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07Undated

Never cut what you can untie.

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08Undated

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

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09Undated

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

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10Undated

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

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11Undated

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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12Undated

To teach is to learn twice.

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13Undated

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

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14Undated

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

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15Undated

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

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16Undated

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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17Undated

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

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18Undated

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

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19Undated

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

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20Undated

Justice is the truth in action.

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21Undated

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

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22Undated

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

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23Undated

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

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