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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Politeness
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Joseph Joubert
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Joseph Joubert
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
Joseph Joubert
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
Joseph Joubert
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Joseph Joubert
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
Joseph Joubert
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
Joseph Joubert
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
Joseph Joubert
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
Joseph Joubert
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
Joseph Joubert
Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Joseph Joubert
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
Joseph Joubert
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Joseph Joubert
Living requires but little life doing requires much.
Joseph Joubert