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Joseph Joubert

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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.


— Joseph Joubert


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Ask the young. They know everything.


— Joseph Joubert


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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.


— Joseph Joubert


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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.


— Joseph Joubert


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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.


— Joseph Joubert


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Innocence is always unsuspicious.


— Joseph Joubert


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


— Joseph Joubert


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Justice is the truth in action.


— Joseph Joubert


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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.


— Joseph Joubert


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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.


— 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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