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Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

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

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

Joseph Joubert

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joseph Joubert

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

Joseph Joubert

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

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Joseph Joubert

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

Joseph Joubert

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Joseph Joubert

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Joseph Joubert

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Joseph Joubert

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Joseph Joubert

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.

Joseph Joubert

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joseph Joubert

We disjoint the mind like the body.

Joseph Joubert

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

Joseph Joubert

I would fain coin wisdom,โ€”mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of menโ€”as base moneyโ€”the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Joseph Joubert

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Joseph Joubert

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Joseph Joubert

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

Joseph Joubert

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Joseph Joubert

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

Joseph Joubert

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

Joseph Joubert

Close your eyes and you will see.

Joseph Joubert

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

Joseph Joubert

A temperate style is alone classical.

Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Joseph Joubert

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.

Joseph Joubert

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Joseph Joubert
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