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
wrinkles smooth politeness
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
chastity senses supreme
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
ruins reconstruction antiquity
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
window strikes
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.
guests needs enjoy
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
expression hints needs
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
inspired surprise arise
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
self-respect firsts ears
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
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.
intelligence mediocre sentiments
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
madness advise
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
enmity today emotion
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
indulge-in charity charitable
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
blur clear words
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear