73 Quotations by Joseph Joubert
- 41. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
- 42. The beautiful! It is beauty seen with the eye of the soul.
- 43. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- 44. The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
- 45. The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
- 46. The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when peo ...
- 47. The passions of the young are vices in the old.
- 48. The spectacle has changed, but our eyes remain the same.
- 49. The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
- 50. There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
- 51. There is always some levity even in excellent minds; they have wings to raise, and also to stay.
- 52. There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
- 53. They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
- 54. Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
- 55. Think that day lost whose descending sun,
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- 56. This evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
- 57. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
- 58. To teach is to learn twice over.
- 59. To teach is to learn twice.
- 60. Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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