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Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

Joseph Joubert

“Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man”

Joseph Joubert

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

Joseph Joubert

“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”

Joseph Joubert

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”

Joseph Joubert

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”

Joseph Joubert

“In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared”

Joseph Joubert

“Children need models rather than critics.”

Joseph Joubert

“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”

Joseph Joubert

“Children need models more than they need critics”

Joseph Joubert

“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”

Joseph Joubert

“When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it”

Joseph Joubert

“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.”

Joseph Joubert

“When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile”

Joseph Joubert

“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”

Joseph Joubert

“Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.”

Joseph Joubert

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

Joseph Joubert

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve”

Joseph Joubert

“Tenderness is the repose of Passion”

Joseph Joubert

“Children are the keys of paradise.”

Joseph Joubert