Joseph Joubert Quotes & Quotations

Joseph Joubert Quotes

» Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

» We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

» Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

» Chance generally favors the prudent.

» He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

» The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

» We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

» Ornaments were invented by modesty.

» There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

» Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

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