Joseph Joubert Quotes

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“All religions = all women.”

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“God made life to be lived and not to be known.”

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“Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.”

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“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”

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“Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.”

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“To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”

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“I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.”

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“Illusions comes from heaven and mistakes come from us.”

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“Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.”

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“The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.”

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“Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God.”

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“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”

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“The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”

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“Necessity can make a doubtful action innocent, but it cannot make it commendable.”

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“Strength is not energy. Some writers have more muscles than talent.”

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“The truth. They make it consist of nothing they cannot prove. The greatest happiness they find in it is being able to put forth incontestable assertions. This is what they like, and they consider it a sign of prestige, a prerogative, a power, a dignity, etc., a liberation from error.”

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“What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.”

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“In these times when, to express ourselves, we must speak in a way others do not.”

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“It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.”

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“Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.”

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“When I had the strength, I did not have the patience. I have the patience today and I no longer have the power.”

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“Imprisoned in our bodies…and our soul has its windows.”

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“Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all.”

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“What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship.”

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“The truth! Only God sees it.”

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“All these young minds the revolution has heated up and brought to flower before their time, before their age.”

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“You want to talk to someone: first open your ears.”

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“Melancholy: when we have sorrows without a name.”

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“To see the world means judging the judges.”

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“One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.”

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“There is an infinity of things one does well only through necessity.”

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“…burdened with the unbearable weight of ourselves.”

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“Anger makes us adroit.”

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“Dream. Lost memory.”

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“Poetry of ideas.”

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“All reflection is art.”

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“Everything that is exact is short.”

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