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Joseph Joubert Quotes

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Joseph Joubert

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Joseph Joubert

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert