Joseph Joubert Quotes

To The Liberal Ideas Of The Age Must Be Opposed The Moral Ideas Of All Ages.

We Should Make Ourselves Loved, For Men Are Only Just Towards Those Whom They Love.

We Know God Easily, If We Do Not Constrain Ourselves To Define Him.

He Who Has Imagination Without Learning Has Wings But No Feet. [fr., Celui Qui A De L'imagination Sans Erudition A Des Ailes, Et N'a Pas De Pieds.]

In Temperance There Is Ever Cleanliness And Elegance.

Xenophon Wrote With A Swan's Quill, Plato With A Pen Of Gold, And Thucydides With A Brazen Stylus.

Taste Is The Literary Conscience Of The Soul.

A Man Who Shows No Defect Is A Fool Or A Hypocrite, Whom We Should Mistrust. There Are Defects So Bound To Fine Qualities That They Announce Them,--defects Which It Is Well Not To Correct.

Criticism Even Should Not Be Without Its Charms. When Quite Devoid Of All Amenities, It Is No Longer Literary.

Be Saving, But Not At The Cost Of All Liberality. Have The Soul Of A King And The Hand Of A Wise Economist.

I Love Prudence Very Little, If It Is Not Moral.

We Shall Always Keep A Spare Corner In Our Heads To Give Passing Hospitality To Our Friends' Opinion.