Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

-Joseph Joubert

alone
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

beauty
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

-Joseph Joubert

best
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

-Joseph Joubert

family
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

future
Imagination is the eye of the soul.

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

imagination
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

learning
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

love
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

poetry
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

-Joseph Joubert

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

-Joseph Joubert

respect
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

-Joseph Joubert

truth
Justice is the truth in action.

-Joseph Joubert

truth

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