You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
– Joseph Joubert
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
– Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
– Joseph Joubert
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
– Joseph Joubert
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
– Joseph Joubert
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
– Joseph Joubert
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
– Joseph Joubert
Justice is the truth in action.
– Joseph Joubert
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
– Joseph Joubert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
– Joseph Joubert
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.
– Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
– Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.