Joseph Joubert
"Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity."
Joseph Joubert
"Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable."
Joseph Joubert
"Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven."
Joseph Joubert
"It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman."
Joseph Joubert
"I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself."
Joseph Joubert
"To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap."
Joseph Joubert
"Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary."
Joseph Joubert
"Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated."
Joseph Joubert
"There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment."
Joseph Joubert
"One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty."
Joseph Joubert
"There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad."
Joseph Joubert
"Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection."
Joseph Joubert
"Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus."
Joseph Joubert
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