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Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Without duty life is soft and bone less.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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

Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Never cut what you can untie.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

To teach is to learn twice.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

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

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

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.