Joseph Joubert
Quotes
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.
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.
The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The voice is an aid to intelligence.
We must try, as much as possible, not to mistrust anyone.
Once we have tasted the juice of words, our mind can no longer pass them by. We drink thought from them.
