Joseph Joubert
France
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees
To teach is to learn twice
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world
The passions of the young are vices in the old
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone
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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