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 eye
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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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.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
eye vision closed-eyes
Close your eyes and you will see.
eyeglasses vision blur
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
friendship eye looks
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
eye people mediocrity
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
inspirational eye excellence
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
inspirational life eye
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
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Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man