“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”Joseph Joubert
“Let anger pass, make a place for it; do not impede its progress; do not disturb its development, give it the time it needs to die out, open a wide path for it.”Joseph Joubert
“Retreat often into your sphere, rest yourself in your center, plunge yourself into your element: good advice, which must be remembered.”Joseph Joubert
“There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.”Joseph Joubert
“Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.”Joseph Joubert
“"But he doesn't finish his sentences," (he said). And they don't finish their thoughts. — To finish their thoughts. — To finish one's thought! It is a long process, it is rare. It gives intense pleasure. Because every finished thought easily enters the mind. They don't have the same need to be beautiful in order to please. It is enough for them to be finished. The situation of the soul that has had such thoughts communicates itself to other souls and transfers its repose to them.”Joseph Joubert
“Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent.”Joseph Joubert
“It is not simply a matter of distinguishing between good and evil, but also of not confusing what is laughable with what is not. To make laughable what is not is in some way to make bad what was good.”Joseph Joubert