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
freedom justice liberty
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
writing needs natural
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
wife widows dignity
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
soul machines paint
The soul paints itself in our machines.
liquid language mark
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
order color add
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
sex women wind
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
miracle credulity trickery
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
blessing victory progress
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
ideas
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
beauty beautiful
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
law action enlightening
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
spurs morality curb
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
moral ancient contempt
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.