Quote

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

Joseph Joubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Must
Unwillingly
Quit
Quitting
Separation
Paris
Friends
Part
Country

More quotes by Joseph Joubert

Image
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
Image
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
Joseph Joubert
Image
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
Joseph Joubert
Image
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Joseph Joubert
Image
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
Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Joseph Joubert
Image
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
Joseph Joubert
Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Joseph Joubert
Image
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
Joseph Joubert