|
|
:: Famous
Quotations by Joseph Joubert (43 Quotations) |
:: 1754-1824, French Moralist |
 |
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Kindness]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Ambition]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Labor]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
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 - [Grace]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Mystery]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Argument]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Monuments]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Writers and Writing]
|
| |
Report Error |
|
|
 |
|
