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Joseph Joubert

1754-1824. French moralist and essayist.

1. "You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

categories: Art and Culture

2. "Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Oration and Silence

3. "Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Oration and Silence

4. "What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

categories: Truth and Falsity

5. "We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

categories: Time and Passing

6. "True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue."

categories: God and Religion

7. "To teach is to learn twice."

categories: Education

8. "To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself."

categories: Manners and Ethics

9. "Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth."

categories: Time and Passing -:- Truth and Falsity

10. "There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability."

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Intellect, Judgement

11. "There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

12. "The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart."

categories: Oration and Silence

13. "The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it."

categories: Youth and Age

14. "Space is to place as eternity is to time."

categories: Time and Passing -:- Various

15. "Politeness is the flower of humanity."

categories: Human -:- Manners and Ethics

16. "Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."

categories: Various

17. "Never cut what you can untie."

categories: Various

18. "Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Family and Loneliness -:- Love

19. "It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it."

categories: Happiness

20. "Innocence is always unsuspicious."

categories: Sin and Conscience

21. "Imagination is the eye of the soul."

categories: Reality and Imagination

22. "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

categories: Reality and Imagination -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

23. "God has commanded Time to console the unhappy."

categories: Pain and Tears -:- Time and Passing

24. "Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features."

categories: Talent and Genius

25. "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

categories: Talent and Genius -:- Work and Laziness

26. "Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."

categories: Art and Culture

27. "Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man."

categories: Marriage

28. "Ask the young. They know everything."

categories: Youth and Age

29. "All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought."

categories: Youth and Age

30. "All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Nature and Animals


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