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
giving joy
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
children men animal
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
excess delight deprived
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
tree looks youth
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
warrior authority wells
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
gold use coins
In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.
beautiful understanding beautiful-thoughts
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
simplicity taste
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
success men giving
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
reflection wings light
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
beautiful style half
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
style
A temperate style is alone classical.
speech incorporation
Speech is but the incorporation of thought.