401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

To teach is to learn twice.

Work like you don't need the money.

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.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Never cut what you can untie.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

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.