Joseph Joubert Quotes
A French moralist and essayist.
(1754 - 1824)
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A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. - Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
[Deserve]
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
[Nature]
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All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Antiquity! - I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
[Antiquity]
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Avoid singularity. - There may often be less vanity in following the new modes, than in adhering to the old ones. - It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting them.
[Fashion]
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Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
[Charity]
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Chance usually favors the prudent man.
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Chastity enables the soul to breathe a pure air in the foulest places. - Continence makes her strong, no matter in what condition the body may be. - Her sway over the senses makes her queenly: her light and peace render her beautiful.
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Children have more need of models than of critics.
[Children]
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
[Education]
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they may be.
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Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
[Thought]
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
[Labor]
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God has commanded time to console the unhappy.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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