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
cannot hold itself life soft together
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together
country travel life-is
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
dance work live-life
Work like you don't need the money.
life action impulse
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
life age innocence
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
life wind woven
Our life is woven wind.
inspirational life-is duty
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
brings evening life
The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
together life-is togetherness
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
inspirational life eye
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
inspirational life education
To teach is to learn twice.
life cutting interesting
Never cut what you can untie.
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.