Joseph Joubert
38 quotations
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Space is the stature of God.