401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.