Joseph Joubert Quotes

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts.

What our eyes see, our imagination can no longer see. The same thing cannot be the object of both kinds of seeing.

A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.

What we say is similar to what we are.

What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?

Let's go; and follow your mistake.

There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.

When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.

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

Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.

Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God.

Never cut what you can untie

My soul lives in a place where the passions have passed by and where I have known them all.

Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.