Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 7

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• Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Simplicity, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Way, Familiar, Familiarity

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.21

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• He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

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  Friendship, Friends, Weakness

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• In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Coins

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Fear loves the idea of danger.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fear, Ideas, Fear Of Love

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.59

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• In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ambition, Greed, Matter

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

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  Writing, Needs, Natural

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

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  Fire, Light, Flames

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

  Joseph Joubert

  Vanity, Would Be, Handsome

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• It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Polish

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Hypocrite, Men

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• When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Eye, Looks

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

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  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

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• Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

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  Inspirational, Life Is, Duty

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Innocence is always unsuspicious.

  Joseph Joubert

  Innocence

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• Politeness smooths wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wrinkles, Smooth, Politeness

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• When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

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  Appreciation, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Taken, Finished

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Paris, Quitting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.18

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• National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

  Joseph Joubert

  Literature, Fables, Ends

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

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  Success, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

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  Men, Heaven, Religion

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• The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reflection, Light, Wings

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Miracle, Trickery, Credulity

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• Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

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  Men, Age, Quality

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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