Joseph Joubert

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.

Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children.

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

God has commanded time to console the afflicted.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

The good is worth more than the best.

To teach is to learn twice over.