Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Joseph Joubert quotes, Joseph Joubert sayings, and Joseph Joubert proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.Joseph Joubert
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Children need models rather than critics.Joseph Joubert
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Slander is the solace of malignity.Joseph Joubert
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.Joseph Joubert
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.Joseph Joubert
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God has commanded Time to console the unhappyJoseph Joubert
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.Joseph Joubert
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.Joseph Joubert
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.Joseph Joubert
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.Joseph Joubert
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.Joseph Joubert
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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.Joseph Joubert
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. Joseph Joubert
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All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.Joseph Joubert
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Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.Joseph Joubert
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.Joseph Joubert
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.Joseph Joubert
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.Joseph Joubert
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.Joseph Joubert
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The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.Joseph Joubert
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.Joseph Joubert
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.Joseph Joubert
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The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.Joseph Joubert
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.Joseph Joubert
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.Joseph Joubert
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.Joseph Joubert
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.Joseph Joubert
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.Joseph Joubert
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To teach is to learn twice.Joseph Joubert
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.Joseph Joubert