Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubertwas a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 May 1754
CountryFrance
Joseph Joubert quotes about
heart may rooms
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
life age innocence
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
fables literature ends
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
daughter admiration
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
healthy soul virtue
Virtue is the health of the soul.
ornaments modesty
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
self-respect firsts ears
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
curiosity mind answers
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
business ideas age
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
friendship eye looks
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
motivation may said
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
truth memories motivation
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
growing-up pain people
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
power wells touched
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.