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
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.
business ideas age
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
curiosity mind answers
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
self-respect firsts ears
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
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Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
appreciate crucible criticism
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
wisdom common-sense heaven
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
truth opinion
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.