Joseph Joubert Quotes

All beautiful words are susceptible to more than one meaning (or signification).

Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.

Children need models rather than critics.

One can advance a long time in life without aging.

Es preciso que exista algo sagrado

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

The breath of the mind is attention.

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

To write his views or his observations, his ideas, but not his judgments. Our judgments limit our views of things. Some enclosures, but no walls. The man who always write his judgments places before his eyes the calpe and abyla. He goes no further and creates a nec plus ultra. Thus, in the study of wisdom, many views and few judgments.

The truth! Only God sees it.

El objetivo de la argumentación o de la discusión, no debe de ser la victoria, si no el progreso

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة

Retreat often into your sphere, rest yourself in your center, plunge yourself into your element: good advice, which must be remembered.

To teach is to learn twice over.