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
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
wisdom taken finished
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
gratitude blessing evil
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
mind genius standards
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
god constrain ifs
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
success reflection men
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
beauty beautiful eye
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
morning children eye
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
play ideas clarity
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
doe instruments transport
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
education lax cold
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
thinking
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
thinking views hands
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
philosophy
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.