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
sound logic grammar
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
excellence germs maxims
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
beauty beautiful heart
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.
fire religion alive
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
religion virtue
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
beauty beautiful
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
fall lips surprise
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
wife widows dignity
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
soul machines paint
The soul paints itself in our machines.
writing needs natural
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
mind add
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
attention vessel
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
freedom justice liberty
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
sex women wind
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.