“Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.”

—  Joseph Joubert

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness." by Joseph Joubert?
Joseph Joubert photo
Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Related quotes

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh photo

“He’s not a big man, he’s not a small man, he’s what you might call a handy man.”

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh (1930) Gaelic games commentator

Famous quotes, 1949

Geronimo Stilton photo

“Loving means sharing what you have however big or small it may be!”

Geronimo Stilton (1958) character

Source: The Haunted Castle

Robert Anton Wilson photo

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
Saul Bellow photo

“A man is only as good as what he loves.”

Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
Thomas Shadwell photo

“Every man loves what he is good at.”

Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692) English poet and playwright

Act V, sc. i.
The True Widow (1679)

Cinda Williams Chima photo

“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

W.B. Yeats photo

“Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?”

W.B. Yeats book The Tower

I, st. 5-6
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Context: But is there any comfort to be found?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?

Mitch Albom photo

“People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Nicholas Sparks photo

“That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Related topics