Joseph Joubert
France
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
7 May 1754 // 4 May 1824
Moralist / Essayist
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Politeness is the flower of humanity
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader
Misery is almost always the result of thinking
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates
Justice is the truth in action
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him
Innocence is always unsuspicious
Imagination is the eye of the soul
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum
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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