401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.