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
real cannonballs
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
order color add
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
liquid language mark
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
men age quality
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
religion iliad
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
pebbles rolling-along grain
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
children book reading
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
iron generations grappling
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....
fate favors prudent
Chance generally favors the prudent.
surprise wells audience
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....
justice action
Justice is the truth in action.
ideas perfection lasts
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
love heart judging
When we love, it is the heart that judges.
order soul mind
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.