Joseph Joubert
Quotes
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.
They cannot accustom themselves to lacking nothing.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.
