Joseph Joubert Quotes

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Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air.

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Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

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

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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

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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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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.

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

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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

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Our opinions are clouds between us and the clear skies of truth.

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The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

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

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

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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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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

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Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

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God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

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In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

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

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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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The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

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

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Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

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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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