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Joseph Joubert

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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.


— Joseph Joubert


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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.


— Joseph Joubert


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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.


— Joseph Joubert


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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.


— Joseph Joubert


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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.


— Joseph Joubert


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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.


— 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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