Author Topic: ~ Joseph Joubert Quotes ~ (Read 1787 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 26, 2015, 06:59:12 PM »

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2015, 06:59:49 PM »

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:00:28 PM »

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:01:14 PM »

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:01:50 PM »

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:02:57 PM »

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:03:44 PM »

Without duty life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:04:23 PM »

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:05:33 PM »

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:06:11 PM »

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:06:55 PM »

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:07:40 PM »

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** January 26, 2015, 07:08:10 PM »

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

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