Joseph Joubert Quotes

It is not light that burns, that purifies, that consumes, that divides, and that recomposes; it is fire. And this fire we are talking about always follows light.

The voice is an aid to intelligence.

Imprisoned in our bodies...and our soul has its windows.

And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois

Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their for-tune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die — but asleep!

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

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

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

Reason does not reason. It goes straight to the fact or the consequence.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.