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
reading book world
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
book men religion
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
may convince
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
mind attention breaths
The breath of the mind is attention 128
flower animal giving
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
men intelligent age
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
book reading soul
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
writing glasses fine-words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
power wells touched
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
inspirational destiny men
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
growing-up pain people
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
truth memories motivation
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
motivation may said
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
friendship eye looks
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.