Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Souls
Tempers
Loving
Rigorous
Natures
Takes
Stamp
Truth
Enters
Soul
Stamps
Temper
Arid
Rough
Softens
More quotes by 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
Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
Joseph Joubert
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
Joseph Joubert
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
Joseph Joubert
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Joseph Joubert
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Joseph Joubert
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
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
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
Joseph Joubert
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
Joseph Joubert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Joseph Joubert
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph Joubert
