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Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, celebrated for his insightful reflections and aphorisms. His thoughts on philosophy, literature, and human nature have inspired generations of writers and thinkers. He is remembered today for the depth and elegance of his maxims, which continue to resonate. Here are 314 of his quotes:

You want to talk to someone: first open your ears. (Joseph Joubert)
The passions of the young are vices in the old. View quote
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God has commanded Time to console the afflicted. View quote
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Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. View quote
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I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage. View quote
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One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them. View quote
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One always adds a little of one's soul to what one thinks. View quote
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When a truth is better conceived through abstraction, use the abstraction; if not, don't. View quote
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. View quote
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. View quote
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A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject. (Joseph Joubert)
One must die lovable (if one can). View quote
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Solitude gives an I. I that gives solitude. It is in our thoughts, and the one the world gives, in our feelings. Because solitude grows accustomed to seeing, to contemplating; and the world, to acting for itself. View quote
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A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive." View quote
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To write his views or his observations, his ideas, but not his judgments. Our judgments limit our views of things. Some enclosures, but no walls. The man who always write his judgments places before his eyes the calpe and abyla. He goes no further and creates a nec plus ultra. Thus, in the study of wisdom, many views and few judgments. View quote
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Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God. View quote
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They do not know how to apply names to things. View quote
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Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose. View quote
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Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm. View quote
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Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues. View quote
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it. (Joseph Joubert)
My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build. View quote
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To know: it is to see inside oneself. View quote
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Available. A thought is perfect only when it is perfectly available, that is to say when one can place it and detach it at will. View quote
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For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors. View quote
Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert

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Occupation: French Writer
Born: May 7, 1754
Died: May 4, 1824
Quotes count: 314
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