Joseph Joubert
France
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
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Chance generally favors the prudent
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted in the memory, they nourish the will
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
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays