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
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.
beauty beautiful
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
beauty beautiful eye
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
beautiful song mean
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
beautiful style half
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
beautiful understanding beautiful-thoughts
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
beautiful truth easier
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
beautiful genius labor
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
beauty beautiful garden
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
decide deciding question stir stirring
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up
argument debate question settle settling
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
aim argument discussion motivational quote-of-the-day
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
choose friend marriage whom woman
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man
want-him want said
I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie