Joseph Joubert
Quotes
All beautiful words are susceptible to more than one meaning (or signification).
Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.
I know too well what I am going to say. I know it too well before writing.
Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.
What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?
The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.
The truth by way of illusion.
My dreams are more amorous than my actions have ever been.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.
They speak to the ear. I want to speak to the memory.
