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Joseph Joubert

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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.


— Joseph Joubert


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Children need models rather than critics.


— Joseph Joubert


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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


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


— Joseph Joubert


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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.


— Joseph Joubert


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


— Joseph Joubert


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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.


— Joseph Joubert


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Politeness is the flower of humanity.


— Joseph Joubert


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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.


— Joseph Joubert


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Imagination is the eye of the soul.


— Joseph Joubert


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About Joseph Joubert






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When my friends are one-eyed I look at them in profile. More complete editions were to follow as were collections of Joubert's correspondence. External links
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article
Catholic Encyclopedia article
Joubert's works at Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French)
Review of translations by Paul Auster.

He alternated between living in Paris with his friends and life in the privacy of the countryside in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. More complete editions were to follow as were collections of Joubert's correspondence. From the age of fourteen Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse where he later taught until 1776.

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