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
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
moments hostile
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
religion iliad
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
pebbles rolling-along grain
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
iron generations grappling
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....
surprise wells audience
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....
remember
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
justice action
Justice is the truth in action.
ideas perfection lasts
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
gratitude blessing evil
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
writing glasses fine-words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
writing fine-words fine
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
appreciate crucible criticism
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.
eye vision closed-eyes
Close your eyes and you will see.