Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us. Joseph Joubert More Quotes by Joseph Joubert More Quotes From Joseph Joubert 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 heart may rooms 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 wish numbers art Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them. Joseph Joubert often-is fashion wise 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 loving-nature soul truth Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. Joseph Joubert usefulness reason bees The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. Joseph Joubert different art thinking It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. Joseph Joubert handsome vanity would-be Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. Joseph Joubert honored age people There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. Joseph Joubert humor mind wings There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. Joseph Joubert admiration daughter It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing. Joseph Joubert flower simple expression I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated! Joseph Joubert coins men mean 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 quitting paris country He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. Joseph Joubert friends weakness friendship A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. Joseph Joubert finished taken wisdom Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. Joseph Joubert exercise brain giving How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? Joseph Joubert reputation made book Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them. Joseph Joubert lips surprise fall When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it. Joseph Joubert appreciation giving men Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. Joseph Joubert wrenches doe time
