Joseph Joubert Quotes

One must die lovable (if one can).

For worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

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

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

To compensate absence with memory.

Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.

Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent.

Everything we can measure seems small.

We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.

Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.

Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.

I don't like to write anything down on paper that I would not say to myself.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.

We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.