Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 8

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• You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth

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• One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter, Simple, Men

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• Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspired, Surprise, Arise

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.83

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• Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

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  Sex, Women, Wind

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• Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

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  Doe, Instruments, Transport

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

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  Humor, Wings, Mind

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• It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Easier

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

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  Wisdom, Age, Lamps

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• Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

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  Vices, Virtue, Calculations

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

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• All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

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  People, Dumb, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.20

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• Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Slave, Force

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

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• Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

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  Beautiful, Understanding, Beautiful Thoughts

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

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  Order, Color, Finishing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

  Joseph Joubert

  Moral, Ancient, Contempt

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

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  Soul, Body, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are those to whom one must advise madness.

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  Madness, Advise

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

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  Pain, Mind, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.141

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• Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

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  Justice, Waking, Speak

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• The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

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  Ideas, Bird, Mind

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• All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

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  Luxury, Taste, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.108

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• Justice is the right of the weakest.

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  Justice

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• Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

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  May, Praise, Innocent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

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  Giving, Soul, Flavor

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• The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

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  Chastity, Senses, Supreme

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