How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? Joseph Joubert More Quotes by Joseph Joubert More Quotes From Joseph Joubert A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity. Joseph Joubert double-mindedduplicityeye Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. Joseph Joubert eyebeautifulbeauty Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert eyeinspirationallife Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void. Joseph Joubert profoundorderpeople Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders. Joseph Joubert menheavenreligion Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing. Joseph Joubert enmityemotiontoday There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. Joseph Joubert sentencesvolumeessence One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. Joseph Joubert marriagewifemen All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. Joseph Joubert versesleisuremade The mind is the atmosphere of the soul. Joseph Joubert atmospheresoulmind What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. Joseph Joubert sunlightanticipationtruth In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream. Joseph Joubert actingdreambelieve No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. Joseph Joubert sentimentsintelligencemediocre National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. Joseph Joubert fablesendsliterature In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. Joseph Joubert greedambitionmatter Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. Joseph Joubert viewshandsthinking 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 punishmentcrimesoul The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. Joseph Joubert essencesoulthinking Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself. Joseph Joubert ambitionwritingbook Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. Joseph Joubert transportinstrumentsdoe
