Joseph Joubert: Citations en anglais (Page 5)

“In this painting of our life given to us by our memories, everything is moving and depends on our point of view.”

“All those whom for style is not a game but a labor.”

“Adventurous minds, which wait for and receieve their ideas only from chance.”

“What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?”

“We are worth more when someone looks at us. And, because of this, an eye is always watching us.”

“An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts.”

“Let us remember that everything is double.”

“Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.”

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

“There is nothing perfectly true for man; I mean in human opinions. Just like there is nothing perfectly round.”

“Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.”

“When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.”

“This poetic nudity within words.”

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

“A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.”

“He must not cultivate his friends, but cultivate his friendships within himself. They must be kept, cared for, watered.”

“The voice is an aid to intelligence.”

“To teach is to learn twice over.”

“You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?”