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
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.
ideas
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
blessing victory progress
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
warrior authority wells
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
miracle credulity trickery
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.