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
time youth young
Ask the young. They know everything.
respect worthy capable
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
inspirational life-is duty
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
agriculture kind excellent
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
disguise great mask minds
Great minds are those that disguise their limits, that mask their mediocrity.
passions talent
Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed.
clue compass night
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night
ideas polish
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
eye drawing talking
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
beauty beautiful garden
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
paper patient reader
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
genius invisible paint
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
together life-is togetherness
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
found poetry-is
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.