Joseph Joubert

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

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

Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert

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

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert

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.
Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Joseph Joubert

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

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

Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert

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

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert

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Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: French
Born: May 7, 1754
Died: May 4, 1824

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