Joseph Joubert Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Humility, Echoes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Vices, Virtue, Calculations

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.87

• Virtue is the health of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Healthy, Soul, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

• If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

  Joseph Joubert

  Success, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

  Joseph Joubert

  Two, Vices, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Giving, Soul, Flavor

• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Meals, Fabric

• If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

  Joseph Joubert

  Deeds, Rich, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Virtue

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