Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert

French writer

Lived from: 1754 - 1824

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 7 may 1754 Died: 4 may 1824

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  • Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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  • Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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  • Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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  • Space is the stature of God.
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  • Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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  • Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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  • The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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  • The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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  • The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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  • The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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  • The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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  • There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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  • There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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  • They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
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  • To teach is to learn twice.
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  • We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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  • We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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  • What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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  • Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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  • Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
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