A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Joseph Joubert
Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph Joubert
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Joseph Joubert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Joseph Joubert
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
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