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All Quotes by author - Joseph Joubert

" All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. "

" A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. "

" Ask the young. They know everything. "

" Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. "

" Children need models rather than critics. "

" Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. "

" God is the place where I do not remember the rest. "

" 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. "

" He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. "

" How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. "

" Imagination is the eye of the soul. "

" Innocence is always unsuspicious. "

" It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. "

" It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. "

" Justice is the truth in action. "

" Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. "

" Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. "

" Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. "

" Misery is almost always the result of thinking. "

" Never cut what you can untie. "

" Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. "

" One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. "

" Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. "

" Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. "

" Politeness is the flower of humanity. "

" Space is the stature of God. "

" Space is to place as eternity is to time. "

" Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. "

" The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. "

" The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. "

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