We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. Joseph Joubert More Quotes by Joseph Joubert More Quotes From Joseph Joubert In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. Joseph Joubert clothes youth age TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. Joseph Joubert hostile moments Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop. Joseph Joubert vessel attention Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. Joseph Joubert wrinkles pain children Everything that is exact is short. Joseph Joubert simplicity Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate. Joseph Joubert appreciate critics able You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. Joseph Joubert pebbles rolling-along grain How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep! Joseph Joubert growing-up pain people Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. Joseph Joubert fancy use writing Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. Joseph Joubert quality age men The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. Joseph Joubert style half beautiful The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. Joseph Joubert light reflection wings Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Joseph Joubert destiny inspirational men Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. Joseph Joubert impulse action life When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. Joseph Joubert relief trouble worry The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life. Joseph Joubert voice air writing Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. Joseph Joubert beautiful-thoughts understanding beautiful The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. Joseph Joubert military reason sound The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first. Joseph Joubert finishing color order Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. Joseph Joubert flower animal science
